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partly luteous along the costa and along the interior border, and 

 with black blue-spangled streaks towards the exterior border, which 

 is tinged with lilac, and divided by a luteous line from the fringe, 

 which is still paler. Hind wings brown, paler towards the base, 

 with two black blue-spangled spots near the tips, which are tes- 

 taceous, and this hue extends in an attenuated streak along part 

 of the exterior border, and is accompanied by a luteous line. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Para. In Mr. J. P. G. Smith's collection. 



Genus 13. MAENAS. 



Corpus sat gracile. Antennae simplices, corporis dimidio lon- 

 giores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Ali3e lougiusculae, 

 non latse ; anticse apud costam vix convexse, apice rotundatSD, 

 margine exteriore valde obliquo. 



Maenas, Huhn. Verz. Schmett. 167. 



Body rather slender. Antennae simple, more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Wings rather long, not broad. Fore wings hardly convex 

 in front, rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior 

 border. 



1. Maenas Vocula. 



Alba; thorax guttis duabus anticis vittisque tribus fuscis ; alee 

 anticcs plagis costalibus, vitta discali ramosa vittaque postica 

 fuscis ; postica guttis submarginalibus fuscis. 



Phalaena-Noctua Vocula, iStoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. 143, pi. 3J, 



f. 5. 

 Maenas Vocula, Hilbn. Verz. Schmett. 167, 1727. 



Cape. 



2. Maenas Zaide. 



Rufescens ; alos anticce vittis interruptis furcatis albis strigisque 

 nonnullis fuscis ; posticce pallide fuscescentes, vitta abbreviata 

 obscuriore^ margine rufescente. 



Phaleena Zaide, Sloll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. 1(31, pi. 36, f. 6. 

 Maenas Zaide, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 167, 1728. 



Cape. 



