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AGAEISTID^. — ZYG^NID^. 
^gocera fervida. (Plate V. fig. 1 .) 
^gocera fervida, WalJce); Cat. Lej). Het. i. p. 57. n. 4 (185-i). 
Primaries lighter or darker purplish brown, irrorated with grey ; costal margin and 
fringe cream-colour ; an interno-median longitudinal band and an oblique transverse post- 
median band cream-colour : secondaries orange, a black or red-brown elongate spot on the 
discocellular nervures, and a broad slightly irregular marginal border of the same colour ; 
fringe ochreous. Head and thorax black-brown, with a central longitudinal cream- coloui'cd 
streak ; abdomen orange, with a dorsal row of black spots ; below paler ; base, costa, and 
bands of primaries ochreous : secondaries with the outer border ferruginous, becoming darker 
at anal angle. Pectus ochreous ; venter white, with lateral black dots. Expanse of wings 
1 inch 10 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. 
Natal [Gueinzius), South Africa [Sir A. Smith). 
The reddish- bordered form is simply a variety occui'ring with the typical form at Natal. 
METAGAKISTA, Walker. 
Metagarista triphaenoides. (Plate V. fig. 7.) 
Metagarista triphaenoides, WaV^er, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 61. n. 1 (1854). 
Primaries pale brown, the base of costa and internal half of wing sprinkled with black 
scales ; two or three black liturje across the basal half of the discoidal cell, two transverse 
grey-centred elongate black spots with black-edged pale zones, one beyond the middle, the 
other at the end of the cell ; two parallel waved discal lines, the nerviires, and the inter- 
nervular folds black ; margin and fringe black, traversed by an undulated pale yellow line : 
secondaries orange, with an interrupted black external border. Thorax pale brown ; abdomen 
ochreous, banded with black. Wings below ochreous ; a diffused submarginal brown streak : 
primaries with a black spot in the cell and a second at the end of it. Body ochreous, venter 
whitish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 liaes. 
Ashanti. 
We have a second smaller specimen in the Museum from Cape Coast. Phagorista 
leucomela of Herrich-Schaffer is a distinct but allied species. 
ANTEEIS, Wallengren. 
Anteris ampla. (Plate VI. fig. 12.) 
ZygiBna ampla, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 101. n. 59 (1854). 
Primaries dark brown, with five cream-coloured spots — one at the base, the other four 
arranged in pairs across the middle and near the apex of the wing : secondaries ochreous, the 
