1 68 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS MINIODES. 



Miniodes, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 119 (1852); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1231 (1852) ; 

 Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 556 (1894). 



The antennae are thick, and strongly ciliated in the male ; 

 and the palpi are ascending, thick, and obtuse, but not spatu- 

 late. The abdomen is tufted in the male, but not crested ; and 

 the wings are moderately long and broad, but hardly pointed 

 at the tips of the fore-wings. The legs are strongly spined. 



MINIODES DISCOLOR. 

 (Plate CXLIL, Fig i.) 



Miniodes discolor, Guenee, Spec. Ge'n. Lpid. Noct. iii. p. 119, 

 pi. 16, fig. 4 (1852) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 1232, no. i (1857). 



This species is a native of West Africa. It expands from 

 three inches to three inches and a half. 



The fore-wings are reddish-orange streaked with orange, and 

 more or less clouded with brown, so heavily in the male as to 

 cover much of the ground-colour. 



The most conspicuous pale portions are the nervures, the 

 costa, the inner margin, and a patch near the hinder angle. 

 Three pure white spots finely ringed with black stand out 

 prominently ; the two smaller ones, which are round, being 

 placed obliquely near the costa, and the third, which is larger 

 and of an oval form, stands below them and nearly touches 

 the inner small spot. The hind-wings are dark rich rosy red, 

 with the fringes tinged with blackish, nearly to the anal angle^ 

 as well as the hind margin in the male. The last joint of the 

 palpi is much longer in the male than in the female. 



GENUS GLORIANA. 

 Miniodes, Sect. ii. Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 556 (1894). 



