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Black. Head luteous. Palpi tawny, whitish beneath. Tho- 

 rax with three yellow stripes. Pectus whitish on each side. Ab- 

 domen with a diffuse gilded spot on each segment ; three rather 

 long apical tufts, the middle tuft luteous. Anterior legs black, with 

 yellowish stripes ; hind legs luteous, their tarsi whitish. Wings 

 limpid ; ciliae cupreous, with whitish tips ; fore wings thinly covered 

 With whitish scales, gilded at the tips, with the costa and two bands 

 cupreous. 



a, b. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



5b. jEgeria Doleriformis. 



Nigra ; caput flavum ; thorax fascia antica vittisque duabus fla- 

 vis ; abdomen flavo unifas datum ; fasciculus apicalis strigis 

 duabus flavis ; pedes fiavi ; alee limpidce marginibus et antica- 

 rum fascia apiceque auratis. 



Var. ? Antennce apice albce ; abdomen punctis duobus anticis 

 lateralibus anticis albidis. 



iEgeria Doleriformis, Herr.-Schcejf. Eur. Schmett. i. pi. 4, f. 22 ; 



pi. 7, f. 38 ? 



56. JEgeria Astat^formis. 



Nigra; caput antice flavum, vertice luteo ; thorax vittis duabus 

 latis flavis ; abdomen flavum lateribus nigris, fasciis quatuor 

 albis ; fasciculus apud medium flavus ; pedes flavi, femoribus 

 nigro vittatis ; alee limpidce, fusco marginata? ; anticce apice 

 flavce, fasciis duabus f us cis. 



Sesia Astatseformis, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. i. Ses. pi. ] , f. 

 5,6. 



57. 2Egeria Taediiformis. 



Nigricans, capitis vertex flavus ; thorax flavo bivittatus ; abdomen 

 vitta dorsali fulvescente, fascia apicali flava ; fasciculus api- 

 calis apud medium flavus ; pedes flavi, tibiis apice nigris ; 

 alee limpidce, anticce apice fasciaque flavescentibus fusco mar- 

 ginatis. 



Sesia Taediiformis, Freyer, Neu. Beit. Schmett. ii. 142, 314, pi. 182, 

 f. 3. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 42, 333. 



Hungary. 



