206 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



is coloured like the ordinary male of the species, and the left 

 side like the ordinary female. 



ANGERONA (?) SOSPETA. 

 (Plate CXLVI.> Fig. 4.) 



Noctua sospeta, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 22, fig. 3 (1773). 

 Venilia (?) sospeta, Westwood in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 214, pi. 29, fig. 3 (1841). 

 Angerona sospetaria^ Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et 



Phal. i. p. 115 (1857). 



This Moth is a native of Jamaica. It expands about two 

 inches and a half. 



The wings are pale yellow, the fore-wings with several brown 

 spots, which tend to form two very irregular macular bands ; 

 on the hind-wings there is also a large transverse brown spot 

 running outwards from the inner margin. The head is pale 

 yellow, and the thorax and abdomen yellow, the former shad- 

 ing into brown posteriorly. 



GENUS PHAL^NA. 

 Phalana, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 495 (1758); Fabricius, 



Syst. Ent. p. 619 (1775); Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. d'Hist. 



Nat. p. 598 (1798) ; Lamarck, Syst. Anim. sans Vertebres, 



p. 286 (1801). 

 Hygrochroa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 293 (1822 ?) ; 



Meyrick, Handbook Brit. Lepid. p. 283 (1895). 

 Pericallia.) Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 171 (1831); 



Guenee, Spec. Gn. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. i. p. 146 (1857), 



nom. prceocc. 



The antennae are rather short, but pectinated to the tips, 

 most strongly in the male. The palpi are short, broad, and 

 obtuse. The hind tibiae are enlarged at the extremity, and 

 the spurs are of equal length. The wings are broad and 



