NETROCERA; ARNIOCER A. By M. Gaede. 
6. Genus: Jfetrocera (Fldr.) Jord. 
Palpi shoiter than in the 2 preceding genera, the second segment with long hair. Antennal club stronger 
than in Pcmpostola. Spurs of hind tibiae long. In the hindwing veins 4 and 5 rise from the lower, 0 and 
7 from the upper angle. Type: setioides Fldr. 
N. hemichrysa Hmps. (1 g). Forewing golden yellow as far as beyond the centre. The border at hemichrysa. 
the lower cell-angle is angular. Distal area bluish-black, hind-margin a little irrorated with dark. Hindwing 
golden yellow. The black distal margin is in front broad. Expanse 35 mm. North Rhodesia, Central Africa. 
N. basalis Jord. (1 g). The black distal margin of the forewing is not sharply defined, in front very basalts. 
much broader than at the hincl-margin. Only the 2 first segments of the abdomen are laterally yellow. Angola. 
N. diffinis Jord. The black distal margin is straightly cut off. In front very broad, extending into diffinis. 
the cell. 3 abdominal segments laterally yellow. Usambara. 
N. setioides Fldr. (1 g). Light golden yellow. Distal margin of forewing uniformly broad black, setioides. 
terminating more or less widely at the hind-margin, indistinctly defined. Hindwing marked correspondingly. -— 
ugandae Jord. Margin of forewing more distinctly defined. Abdomen without any yellow scales (what is also ugandae. 
the case in Abyssinian specimens). Expanse 26-—28 mm. East Africa. 
N. jordani Joicey (1 g). Forewing dark yellow. Cell and submedian fold bluish-black, of which colour jordani. 
are also the costal margin at the apex, the distal margin, and hind-margin. Hindwing of a bright yellow with 
a bluish-black margin. Expanse 24 mm. .Lake Kiwu. 
7. Genus: Arniocera Hpfjr. 
Palpi erect. Antenna thickened at the end. In the hindwing veins 6 + 7 forked. Type: auriguttata 
Hpfjr. 
A. sferaecki Rgh. (1 h). Forewing black, with an intense green gloss. With 3 or 4 rectilinear red bands sternecki. 
with black margins. Behind them 2 rows of sometimes confluent spots. Hindwing orange-yellow or carmine 
with a black margin. Expanse 28 to 38 mm. East Africa. 
A. lautuscula Karsch (1 h). Black, with a green lustre. The 3 red bands on the forewing are narrow, lautuscula. 
the distal one incurved at the anal angle. Hindwing orange-yellow with a broad black margin. Abdomen red, 
legs black. Expanse 28 to 32 mm. East Africa. 
A. erythropyga Wllgr. (= negamica Wkr.) (1 h). Forewing with 3 carmine bands, the last of which erythropy- 
is reniformly excurved. Hindwing carmine with a black margin in which there is frequently yet 1 small spot. 9 a - 
Expanse 26 to 30 mm. Delagoa Bay, Bechuana Land. 
A. Sugubris sp. n. (li) is similar to lautuscula. In the forewing the bands have the same shape, lugubris. 
Hindwing red with a very broad black marginal band which sometimes covers the whole hindwing. Abdomen 
red, legs black. Expanse 28 to 32 mm. East Africa. 
A. imperialis Btlr. (1 h). Forewing with 2 bands and 2 marginal spots. Hindwing carmine with a imperialis. 
black margin. Head and collar black, abdomen red. Expanse 26 to 32 mm. East Africa. 
A. amoena Jord. is separable by the red head and collar from the very similar imperialis. Marking amoena. 
of wings, spots of tibiae, and abdomen above beginning from the second segment pinkish-red. Probablv 
taborensis Strd. (1 i) is identical with it. — virgata Jord. has the two proximal bands more uniform so that taborensis. 
they do not look as if composed of spots. — In angolana Jord. the two marginal spots are triangular, the v>r 9 a J a - 
anterior one is farther distally removed. Hindwing more narrowly margined. East Africa. 
A. ericata Btlr. (1 i) is easily discernible from the other species by the more orange-red broad bands ericata. 
and the large subapical spot. Hindwing at the costal margin at the base and near the apex, and a little at 
the hind-margin red. Expanse 34 mm. East Africa. 
A. zambesina Wkr. (1 i). Bluish-black. The 3 bands in the forewing as in erythropyga. Easily zambesina. 
recognizable by the spot at the costal margin between the first and second band. Hindwing bluish-black. 
Expanse 28 to 32 mm. South Africa. 
A. poecila Jord. (1 i). Forewing with a bluish-green lustre. Marking yellow with black margins, poecila. 
Subbasal spot in the centre widened. The middle band is often interrupted. An oblong subapical spot and a 
small one below it. Hindwing bluish-green. Abdomen above, beginning from the third segment, red — anguli- angulifera. 
fera Jord. The posterior spot of the strangulated middle band is connected is with the posterior marginal spot. 
East Africa. 
