780 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Testaceous. Head with two well-defined blackish streaks 

 and on each side with two indistinct brownish streaks ; tip of the vertex 

 depressed, subheptagonal; furrow on each side broad, quadrate; front 

 erect, with four slight keels which diverge towards the face; inner keels 

 diverging between the antennae and converging where they join the tip of 

 the vertex. Prothorax blackish, brown above, with three well-defined 

 testaceous keels ; lateral keels angular, converging from the fore border to 

 the first transverse furrow, diverging from thence to the hind border, which 

 is elongated and rounded. Hind femora as long as the abdomen, with 

 three brown patches on the outer side. Hind tibiae much shorter than the 

 abdomen, their spines with black tips. Fore wings with many brown dots 

 and with two or three discal spots which are formed by brown-bordered 

 veins. Hind wings pellucid; veins black. Length of the bocly 12 lines ; 

 expansion of the fore wings 24 lines. 



a. Sandwich Isles. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



Country unknown. 

 27. EPACROMIA PARTITA. 



Foem. Fulva,pilosa; caput nigricans, postice lestaceo notatum, fasti gio 

 subconico, sulcis lateralibus nullis ; antenna fusca, basi testacece, 

 capite et prothorace ad unum longiores ; prolkorax antice nigricans, 

 fascia postica testacea luta angulata, margine poatico producto 

 angulato ; femora postica rw/a, extus glauca nigro biseriatim 

 punctata ; tibice posticee rufce ; alee anticce subdiaphance^ basin versus 

 obscure fuscce playis duabus transversis diaphanis, apices versus fusco 

 pallido guttat< ; alee postica diaphance, venis basi flavissimis. 



Female. Tawny, pilose. Head and fore part of the prothorax 

 blackish. Head wilh some testaceous marks on the hind border; tip of the 

 vertex broad, flat, subconical; no lateral furrows; front very slightly 

 oblique, wilh four well-defined diverging keels ; inner keels continuous to 

 the tip of the vertex. Antennae brown, filiform, longer than the head and 

 the proihorax together, testaceous towards ihe base. Prothorax with a 

 distinct middle keel ; lateral keels oblique, very slight ; a broad testaceous 

 angular band which is divided by a brown line from the hind border ; hind 

 part elongated, angular. Abdomen mottled with black. Hind femora 

 bright red, shorter than the abdomen, glaucous on the outer side, with two 

 rows of black points beneath. Hind tibiae bright red, their spines with 

 black tips. Fore wings nearly pellucid, mostly dark brown towards the 

 base; exterior part with pale brown dots in the disks of the areolets ; two 

 transverse pellucid patches with pale veins, one antemedial, the other post- 

 medial. Hind wings pellucid ; veins black, very bright yellow towards the 

 base and along the interior border. Length of the body 12 lines ; expansion 

 of the fore wings 24 lines. 



Closely allied to E. thoracica ; the keels of the front are more defined, 

 the fore border of the testaceous band is much more angular, and the 

 markings of the fore wings are different. 



