56 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



2. iEGOCERA RECT1LINEA. 



Alee anticcB ferrugineo-fuscce, vitta alba Integra subparallela imma- 

 culala antice bidentata postice unidentata ; posticce fidvee, 

 margine maculaque discali fuscis ; abdomen fulvum. 



iEgocera rectilinea, Boisd. Spec. Gkn. Lep. i. pi. 1 4, f. 5. 



Like 2E. venulia in colour, but the white in the fore wings* 

 forms a continuous and nearly parallel stripe, and has two indenta- 

 tions in front and one behind, but contains no spot. 



a. Ashanti. From the collection of the Wesleyan Missionary 

 Society. 



3. iEGOCERA MAGNA. 



Nigro-fusca, aut ferruginea ; caput subtus, pectus, abdomen et 

 pedes lutea ; caput albo bivittatum ; palpi albo cincti ; thorax 

 antice albo trivittatus ; alee anticce vitta postica quadrimacu- 

 lari, macula antica, fasciaque obliqua discali^ albis ; posticce 

 jiavce nigro aut ferrugineo marginatce et unimaculatce. 



Brownish black. Head and thorax beneath, abdomen and legs 

 luteous. Head with two white stripes above. Palpi with a white 

 band, clothed beneath with luteous hairs. Thorax with three white 

 stripes in front. Fore wings with some reddish marks towards the 

 base, and with six white spots, four of which form an interrupted 

 band extending from the base along the hind border, the fifth near 

 the fore border opposite the second, the sixth forming a short oblique 

 band in the disk nearer the tip. Hind wings yellow, with a broad 

 black hind border, and with a black spot in the disk near the fore 

 border. Fore femora black above ; fore tibiae with black rings ; fore 

 tarsi with white rings; middle tibiae with a black dot on the knees, 

 another near the base, and the third at the tip. Length of the body 

 9 — 11 lines; of the wings 20 — 25 lines. 



Var. Fore wings ferruginous instead of brownish black ; hind 

 wings with the hind border and the discalspot ferruginous, the latter 

 very large. 



a — h. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 

 i. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



