AEGOOERA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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liindwings deep or pale orange. Kabsch reports of meraca that its breast is covered with long yellow hair; if 
that be tnie, meraca mast be separated as a subspecies (German Southwest Africa). The type of triplagiata 
{(^) has the hindwings deep orange; abdomen with a large blurred lateral spot of orange. — German South¬ 
west Africa, Rhodesia, Zambesia, the southern portion of German East Africa. 
S. ( ?) dispar Roths, (cj = Schausia flavifrons B.-Bak.) (4 b). For the want of a better place I put this 
species which was described as Aegocera, with Schausia. Frons of quite imperceptibly tapering behind, 
tibiae less rough than in true Schausia. Black; head, palpi and collar orange. Forewings with a white, almost 
straight, shortened, oblique discal band, 2^—3 mm in width; before the middle of the cell a white oblique 
spot, in (J large and sharply defined, nearly triangular and almost reaching the internal vein, in the $ quite 
blurred. Hindwings of with large white median area, of $ quite black. Coast Region of British East Africa. 
S. ( ?) ruspina A^iriv. Thiknown to me; seems to be closely allied to Aegocera, especially aurantUpennis. 
Black, body spotted with white; abdomen with the basal segments covered laterally with brown-yellow hair, 
like the breast; wings orange, bordered with black; the border on the forewings reaching the end of the cell, 
on both wings marked with white. — Bonga (French Congo) 1 in the Brussels Museum. Very much like 
Weymeria athene\ body very robust. 
14. Genus: Aeg’oeera Latr. 
Palpi with 1. and 2. segments clothed with long hair, particularly the apex of the 2. segment, 3 
smooth, porrect, or erect, at least 4 times as long as broad. Frons with a low or high appendage, truncate 
at the apex and provided with a raised rim, in often narrow, distinctly tapering posteriorly. Hind tibiae 
in covered with long hair both above and beneath, middle and hind tibiae or both provided with spines out¬ 
wardly. Abdomen with 1 or 2 basal crests above. On the forewing the 1. subcostal more proximal than the 
lower median nervule, 2. subcostal arising from the secondary cell, 1. median near the angle of the cell, on 
the hindwing the two median nervules closer together at the cell than at termen. An Indo-African species. 
A. rectilinea Bsd. (4 c) differs from the Indian vemdia principally in having the longitudinal stripe on 
the forewing not interrupted. Tropical West Africa, from Senegambia as far as Angola, in the East to Abys¬ 
sinia and Uganda; but not known from British and German East Africa. Pp brown, almost lustre-less, densely 
strewed with fine sharp grains, cremaster with a transverse row of 6 small points and above these two addi¬ 
tional ones. 
A. brevivitta Hmps. (— irangiana Wichgr.) (4d). On the forewing the longitudinal stripe interrupted, 
the inner portion of the same wider distally than in rectilinea and vemdia, the apical portion shorter. Hind¬ 
wings of ^ almost completely ferruginous. British and German East Africa, Angola. 
A. tigrina. Abdomen yellow anteriorly, with black median stripe, behind black with white rings. Fore¬ 
wings in the basal half with two oblique bands, the former of which often thread-like; near the apex of the cell a 
short striga within the cell, before the termen a shortened subapical band and a subanal spot; these markings 
yellow or partially white, with metallic blue lines between them. Hindwings orange-red with black terminal 
border, fringe spotted with white. Niger to Angola and Uganda. — tigrina Druce (4 d) is found from the Niger- 
Delta to the Lower Congo. The inner oblique band in the basal half of the forewings at least as wide 
as the second one, the latter club-like, widened posteriorly, also the subapical band widening behind, with a 
small isolated spot beneath it; fringe before the anal angle white, at least underneath; on the hindwings the 
fringe more white than black, both above and beneath. 4 colour-varieties: tigrina f. castaneimargo form. nov. 
Forewing with red-brown border and white (ab. albifascia ab. nov.) or yellow (ab. flavifascia ab. nov.) discal 
band. f. nigrimargo form. nov. with black border of the forewings and either Avhite (ab. albifascia) or yellow 
(ab. flavifascia) disfeal band. — fabricata Karsch has the inner subbasal band on the forewings reduced to a 
fine line, the 2. tapering to a sharp point posteriorly, the subapical band not widened behind, the fringe 
before the anal angle as a rule completely black; underneath the fringe of the hindwings more broadly black 
than white. The 4 colour-variations mentioned above under tigrina are repeated in fabricata. xlngola, the. 
southern Congo, Uganda. Specimens from Uganda have the 2. oblicpie band on the forewings not Avidening 
posteriorly. 
A. humphreyi Hmps. (4 c). Body and hindwings as in A. tigrina, the markings of the foroAving and the 
stripes on head and thorax white. Upper surface of foreAvings: Markings betAveen cell and posterior margin 
more or less yelloAV, blurred; before the end of the cell a transverse patch, in the basal area two oblique 
dispar. 
ruspina. 
rectilinea. 
brevivitta. 
tigrina. 
castanei¬ 
margo. 
albifascia. 
flavifascia. 
nigrimargo. 
fabricata. 
humphreyi. 
