MASSAGIDIA. OPHTHALMIS. 



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wing with medial white band rounded above and not reaching costa, 

 its outer edge excurved beyond the cell. 



2 . The whole extremity of abdomen crimson ; fore wing with 

 the medial band bent inwards from vein 4 to costa and not dilated 



Fig. 284. — Massagldla hcsparia, (^ . 



and angled beyond lower angle of cell ; 

 broader and extending to tornus. 



Bab. Sierra Leone {Monjan), 2 cJ , 

 Calabar, 1 (S ; Cameroons, 1 c? , type f 

 L\vp., cS 46, 2 60 millim. 



hind winir with the band 



2 5 , type delicia ; Old 

 2 demena in Coll. Druce. 



Genus OPHTHALMIS. 



Type. 



Ophthalmia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 166 (1827) lincea. 



PristocercBu, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxi. p. 349 (1895) eriopis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptui-ned, the 2nd joint roughly scaled in 

 front, the 3rd long, naked, and somewhat porrect ; frons with rounded 

 ]:)rominence ; antennae almost simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; 

 pectus and tibijE nearly smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight dorsal ridges of 

 hair or smoothly scaled, the claspers of male large, protrusible lateral tufts of 

 long hair from base. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell, 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



A. Fore wing with oblique orange band. 



a. Fore wing with oblique orange antemedial spot darna. 



b. Fore wing without antemedial orange spot svinhoeL 



J^. Fore wing without orange band. 



a. Hind wing orange or crimson, with black terminal 



band eriopis. 



b. Hind wing black, with postmedial yellow band h(smorrhoidahs. 



c. Hind wing black, with orange terminal band. 



a^. Fore wing with the costal area orange proxanthia. 



b^. Fore wing with the costal area dark. 



a'^. Fore wing M'ith the cilia orange cincta. 



b'^. Fore wing with the cilia black lincea. 



d. Hind wing without yellow or orange markings. 

 a}. Hind wing with postmedial series of pale spots. 



a'^. Fore wing with postmedial series of pale spots. 



n?. Hind wing with the basal area white basalts. 



b^. Hind wing with 'the basal area black with 



white spots milete. 



