736 CATALOGUE OF 



diaphanee ; alee anticee plagis duabus magnis anlemediis, macidis 

 duabus exierioribus guttisque nonnuUis fuscis ; alie posticce venis 

 anlemediis rosea marginalis, villa marginuli poslica hrevi lata pallide 

 fuscescenle. Foem. — Caput el prolhorax innolata ; prolhorax fulvus ; 

 alee anlicie villa informi inlerrupta fulva, liluris nonnallis villaque 

 poslica pallide flavis ; alee posticce basi rosece, vilta nulla fuscescenle. 



Male. Pale testaceous, with white hairs. Head and prolhorax with 

 two inajrular Mack stripes, which in the prolhorax are dilated and emit a 

 fork. Head tawny above; fore part whitish ; a band of four black points 

 between the eyes; the two keels of the tip black, slightly angular; front 

 with four slight keels which disappear towards the face. Eyes short- 

 elliptical. Antennae tawny, blackish towards the tips. Prolhorax short, 

 with a very slight keel and with four slight transverse furrows ; first furrow 

 widely inlerrupted in the middle; second and third undulating; fourth 

 straight; hind border obtusely angular. Hind femora a little longer than 

 the abdomen, with two black bauds which are indeterminate on the outer 

 side. Hind tibiae bright red, much shorter than the hind femora, black 

 with the exception of a broad white band for nearly half the length from 

 the base. Four anterior legs with irregular blackish bands. Wings 

 pellucid. Fore wings with two large brown patches, which are accompanied 

 by brown dots and are partly cinereous ; first patch near the base ; second 

 slightly antemedial ; two exterior brown spots and a few more exterior brown 

 dots; costa rounded near the base. Hind wings with black veins; veins 

 towards the base and along the inner border rosy and rosy-bordered ; a pale 

 brownish space along the hinder part of the outer border. Length of the 

 body 8 J lines; expansion of the fore wings 20 lines. 



Female. Body tawny, except the fore part of the head. Head and 

 prolhorax without markings. Abdomen much longer than the hind femora. 

 Fore wings pellucid, wilh the exception of an abbreviated irregular and 

 interrupted tawny stripe, which is broadest near ihe base; a hinder slripe 

 formed by pale yellow veins, as are also some marks in the tawny slripe. 

 Hind wings with the basal part more completely rosy than in the male, 

 and without a brown tinge along the exterior border. Length of the body 

 13 J lines; expansion of the fore wings 27 Hues, 

 a, b. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



Madeira and Teneriffe. 



47. CEdipoda Madeb-e. 

 Maderae, Serv. Hisl. Orlh. 730. 



Madeira. 



N. Africa and Arabia. 



48. ffioiPODA BALTEATA. 



balteata, Serv. Hist. Orlh. 734 — areuaria, Lucas, Expl. Sci. Alg. 35, pi, 4, 

 f. 1. 



a. Algeria. From Prof. Westwood's collection. 



b. Lilerior of South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby in 1813. 



c. S. Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



