102 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



with black dots along the costa, and with two slender, testaceous, 

 brown-bordered, bands, which are approximate hindward, and are 

 dilated on the costa; an indistinct undulating grey line between 

 the second band and the border. Hind-wings slightly luteous, 

 with a black marginal line, a black posterior marginal dot, and 

 a white stripe, which includes, near the margin, an assemblage 

 of black points ; the latter are bounded in front and behind by 

 some little brown lines. Length of the body, 5-6 lines ; of the 

 wings, 12-14 lines." 



FAMILY DYOPSID^E. 

 GENUS LITOPROSOPUS. 



Litoprosopus^ Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 309 (1870). 

 The antennae are rather short, thick, and filiform ; the palpi 

 short, ascending, with the third joint long, smoothly scaled, 

 and sub-spatulate ; the proboscis is unusually stout and well 

 developed ; the abdomen is rather longer than the hind wings, 

 and tufted at the tip. The wings are entire ; the fore-wings 

 are long, and the hind-wings are marked with a large ocellated 

 spot. 



LITOPROSOPUS HATUEY. 

 (Plate CXXIX., Fig. 9.) 



Noctua hatuey, Poey, Cent. Lepid. Cuba, pi. 6 (1833). 

 Dyops hatuey, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 284 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 855, 

 no. 3 (1857) ; Gundlach, Entom. Cubana, p. 347 (1881). 



The fore-wings are reddish-brown, with rather indistinct 

 black transverse lines, and sometimes a yellow spot at the 

 hinder angle, marked with shining blue specks. The hind- 

 wings are brown, yellowish at the base, and with a transverse 

 yellowish stripe. Towards the anal angle is a sub-ocellated 

 spot, with two shining blue spots in the centre, surmounted 



