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black, and the legs whitish. The fore-wings are mouse-colour, 

 the base orange, spotted with black and white, and there is a 

 broad white streak running from the base, widened externally, 

 and the veins of the basal half of the wing are white. The 

 hind-wings are white, with a broad mouse-coloured border, 

 undulated on its inner edge ; a large black spot at the end of 

 the discoidal cell, and sometimes a small spot near the border 

 opposite the cell, and an oblique dash towards the anal angle. 

 This is a widely distributed Moth, and is recorded from such 

 distant localities as Hong Kong, Silhet, and Borneo. 



GENUS CARYATIS. 



Caryatis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 171 (1822?); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 460 (1854). 



Antennae slender, setaceous. Proboscis rather long. Fore- 

 wings rather long, narrow, and pointed at the tip ; hind-wings 

 rounded, hardly longer than broad, and not broader than the 

 fore-wings. Body moderately stout, the abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the hind-wings. 



This is a small African genus, the type of which is here 

 figured. It has been hitherto regarded as allied to the 

 Hypsida, which it considerably resembles in general colora- 

 tion, though the wings are longer and narrower ; and Walker 

 regarded it as a connecting link between the Hypsidce and 

 the Lithosiida. Dr. Jordan, however (" Novitates Zoologicae," 

 iii. p. 59), refers it to the Arctiida on account of the absence 

 of the cross-nervule between the costal and sub-costal ner- 

 vures of the hind-wings. Instead of this, the costal nervure 

 is connected with the sub-costal at its base, and is thrown off 

 from it at two-fifths of the length of the cell. 



CARYATIS PHILETA. 

 (Plate LXXXIX. Fig 4.) 

 Noctua phikta, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. iii. pi. 22, fig. 5 (1780). 



