Publ. 28. VI. 1926. 
PHAEGORISTA; HYPSIFORMA. By M. Gaede. 
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A. comoraila Aur. (17 a) is similar to subretracta. The basal area of the forewing is reddish-orange, comorana. 
also the distal area is somewhat more reddish. Beneath orange, apical area not dark as in the forms of 
speciosa. $ 60 mm. Comoro Is. 
A. diastropha Prout. Body orange. Forewing tan-colourecl, at the base orange, but not distinctly diaslropha. 
defined. The cellular spot shows through from beneath. Hindwing also with a black spot. 55 mm. from 
Madagascar. 
A. concolora Swh. Ochreous brown. Hindwing and under surface somewhat lighter. Wings and concolora. 
body without black spots. All the tarsi are black. $ 55 mm. Madagascar. 
A. borbonica Bsd. (= insularis BscL., jodamia H.-Schdff., antica Wkr., stipata Wkr.) (17 a, b). Thorax borbonica. 
and abdomen above orange-red, abdomen mostly more intensely black-spotted than in the other species. 
Forewing (<$) in the basal area orange-red. Distal area and hindwing dark brown. Costal margin of hindwing 
and the cell, and very narrowly the hind-margin orange-red. Beneath both wings are orange-red with a very 
broad black distal margin. $ orange-yellow; above without any marking, beneath with a black spot at the 
cross-vein of the forewing. 50 to 65 mm. Madagascar. 
A. concinnula Mob. (Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1875) is compared by the author with Spilosoma and Rhodogastria. Forewing 
yellow with black spots. Hindwing white-hyaline, a little suffused with orange. Size not stated; it may be an Arctiid. - 
chionea Mob. Forewing red-brown, veins grey. Hindwing hyaline white, at the margin brownish. Size not stated; it is not 
to be ascertained whereto it belongs. 
2. Genus: Phaegorista B.sd. 
Palpi very long and thin. Veins of forewing as in Aganais. In the hindwing the veins 6 and 7 rise from 
the same place. Vein 8 slightly touches the cell near the base. Type: agaristoides Bsd. 
Group I. Antennae of the $ strongly pectinate. 
Ph. similis Wkr. (= helcitoides Dew.) (17 b). Wings orange-red. Forewing in the apical third black similis. 
with a white subapical band and a round white spot before the anal angle. Hindwing with a narrow black 
margin. Sometimes the ground-colour in the forewing is reduced to a large triangle by an extension of the 
apical band. 60 to 68 mm. Cameroon, Togo, Gold Coast. 
Ph. agaristoides Bsd. (17 c). Forewing blackish-brown. At the base a large triangular white spot, agaristoi- 
A large subapical band and a round spot above the anal angle are white. Hindwing as in similis, but the 
fringe less intensely spotted. — interrupta Bird. (17 b) has orange-yellow instead of white markings, the triangle 
being strongly flattened; ab. albomaculata Strd. is a white interrupta. 
Ph. formosa Btlr. On the forewing the triangular spot is darker, the subapical spot semicircular, orange, 
the small spot at the anal angle also triangular. Probably only a form of agaristoides. 60 mm. Lake Nyassa. 
Ph. bicurvata .sp. n. resembles agaristoides , but the forewing is more pointed, similar to similis. Ground- bicurvata. 
colour darker, marking white. A long narrow streak below the cell as in interrupta, and besides a short lentiform 
one in the cell. The subapical spot is curved S-like, at the anal angle there is no spot. Fringe below the 
apex, at vein 2 and 1, white. Hindwing narrowly margined with black. 68 to 75 mm. North-West Cameroon. 
Ph. falkensteini Dew. is an Agaristid, = poggei-Q (vol. 15, p. 2, pi. lb). 
des. 
interrupta. 
albomacu- 
tata. 
formosa. 
Group II. Antennae of the f i 1 i f o r m. 
Ph. leuconielas H.-Schdff. (17 c). Thorax black, abdomen with black and white rings, at the end red. leucomelas. 
Forewing blackish-brown. A triangular spot in and below the cell and an oblong subapical spot are yellowish- 
white. Hindwing of a pure white with an almost uniformly broad blackish-brown margin. 40 mm. Togo, 
Senegal. 
Ph. xanthosoma Pimps. (17 c). Base of palpus and anterior coxae orange. Abdomen orange with xantlwso- 
interrupted black rings, apex not red. The apical spot of the forewing is more stretched. The spots are of a ma ’ 
purer white. 45 to 50 mm. East Africa, Rhodesia. 
Ph. rubriventris Aur. is smaller, otherwise similar to xanthosoma. Abdomen above black with some ruhriveniris. 
white scales, beneath red. 37 mm. South Cameroon. 
3. Genus: Mypsiforma ( Oberth. ind.) 
Palpi as long as in Aganais. Antennae of <$ bipectinate. Veins of forewing as in Aganais, of hindwing 
as in Phaegorista. 
H. lambertoni Oberth. (17 c). Thorax and forewing pale yellow. Thorax at the end blackish. Forewing lambertoni. 
at the costal margin and above the hind-margin as far as behind the cell strewn with black dots. Cell-end 
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