354 LEPIDOtTERA HETEROCERA. 



a. Zoolu Country, South Africa. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 

 6, c. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



d. West Africa. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



e. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 /. Ashanti. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



g. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Genus 15. PH.EGORISTA. 



Corpus sat validum, sublineare, fere cylindricum, longitudine 

 mediocri. Palpi porrecti, capite longiores ; articulus 2us lo multo 

 longior ; 3us 2o multo gracilior et paullo brevior. Antennae maris 

 latissime pectinatae, fcemince subpectinatae. Abdomen alarum mar- 

 gines posticas attingens. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longissimis. Alae longae, mediocriter lata?, venis quatuor 

 inferioribus. 



Phaegorista, Boisduval. 



Body rather stout, nearly linear and cylindrical, of moderate 

 length. Palpi porrect, longer than the head ; second joint much 

 longer than the first ; third much more slender and a little shorter 

 than the second. Antennae of the male very deeply pectinated, of 

 the female very minutely pectinated. Abdomen extending as far as 

 the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; hind tibiae with four very long 

 spurs. Wings long, moderately broad ; four inferior veins. 



1. Phjegorista Agaristoides. 



Nigra, albo strigata ; abdominis segmenta albo marginata ; alee 

 guttis marginalibus albis ; antica fascia lata testacea alteraque 

 brevi alba ; posticce rufce nigro marginata:. 



Phaegorista Agaristoides, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14, f. 10. 



Black. Head and thorax streaked with white. Palpi testa- 

 ceous towards the base. Proboscis piceous. Pectus and hind part 

 of the thorax and base of the abdomen clothed with testaceous hairs. 

 Abdomen with a white band on the hind border of each segment. 

 Legs with white stripes. Wings with white dots along the borders. 

 Fore wings with a broad testaceous stripe which extends from the 

 base near the hind border to nearly half the length, and is generally 

 of a somewhat fusiform shape ; beyond the middle there is a short 

 oblique white band, and a white spot between it and the hind 

 border. Hind wings red, with black borders. Length of the body 

 6 — 9 lines ; of the wings 22 — 30 lines. 



