58 CHALCOSIIDJE. — URANIID^. 



Euscheina bellona. (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) 

 Euschema bellona, Walker, Cat. Lep. lift. ii. p. 405. n. 2 (1854). 



Basal half of wings golden yellow, spotted with Mack ; external half purplish black : 

 primaries with two series of semitransparent white discal spots, partially washed with grey. 

 Body above golden yellow ; thorax banded and spotted with black ; abdomen banded with 

 greyish ; below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. 



Moulmein. 



OTROEDA, Walker. 

 Otroeda occidentis. (Plate XIV. fig. G.) 

 Otroeda occidentis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 403. n. 2 (1854). 



Primaries dark brown ; the veins at the base, an oblique central band, a shorter tapering 

 band beyond the cell, and a submarginal series of six spots, white : secondaries white ; a very 

 broad external black-brown border, edged within towards the abdominal margin with tawny ; 

 a submarginal and a marginal series of white spots : thorax brown, longitudinally banded 

 with white; abdomen white ; below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. 

 Sierra Leone. 



Otroeda vesperina. (Plate XIV. fig. 7.) 

 Otroeda vesperina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 403. n. 3 (1854). 



Primaries whitish ochreous ; a series of radiating basal streaks ; two oblique transverse 

 central bands, the apical area, and outer border to near external angle, dark brown ; a sub- 

 marginal scries of six white spots : secondaries dull ochreous ; a rather broad external black 

 border with submarginal and marginal series of white spots : thorax black, spotted and longi- 

 tudinally striped with creamy ochreous ; abdomen sordid ochreous, with a dorsal black streak ; 

 below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 



Congo. 



URANIIDxE. 



NYCTALEMON, Dalman. 

 Nyctaleuion excavatus. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 

 Nyctalemon oxcavatus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 9. n. 5 (1854). 



Win^s dark brown, crossed by numerous transverse, undulating, subparallcl lines, and 

 two similarly undulating broad brown bands; a scries of submarginal black elongated 

 markings, edged with whitish; secondaries with three large ocellatcd markings, two in the 

 tail and one 1 subanal ; anal area rosy ferruginous, becoming whitish externally, and crossed 

 by two submarginal black litune. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 to 5 lines. 



Haiti. 



