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Larva cylindrical ; head large ; dorsallj tuberculated from fifth, to last segment ; 

 sparsely hairy ; purplish- brown, paler on anterior segments above ; some pale lateral 

 spots ; a dorsal blackish line and oblique cross bars on penultimate segments. Pupa 

 dusky red. 



Genus LACIDES. 

 Lacides, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hefc B. M. ii. p. 456 (1854). 

 Wings shorter and broader than in typical Hypsa : forewing less produced at 

 the apex, exterior margin more convex : hindwing more convex. Cells longer ; the 

 venation similar. Antenn^ of male more strongly bipectinated. {L. Ficus.) 



LACIDES FICUS (Plate 100, Pig. 2). 



Noctua Ficus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 27 (1793); 



Hypsa (Lacides) Ficus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 456. 



Hypsa Ficus, Moore, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 293, pi. 13, fig. 8, 8a. 



Forewing ochi'eous greyish-brown ; veins creamy -white ; with a less distinct 

 intervening streak between the veins ; base of costa, the cell, and basal area ochreous- 

 red, ornamented with creamy-white spots and black streaks and spots : hindwing 

 ochreous-yellow, with a prominent black spot at end of the cell, and a recurved discal 

 series of almost confluent spots. Thorax ochreous-red, with a creamy-white collar 

 and streak across the tegula, and below the latter a black spot ; abdomen ochreous- 

 yellow, with slight black dorsal and lateral spots ; legs and palpi withblack bands; 



Expanse 2 to 24 inches. 



Genus MIGOPLASTES. 



Migoplastes, Felder, Verli. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1868, p. 285. 

 Pachyphilbna, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1875, p. 325. 



Forewing elongated, almost oval ; cDsta much arched towards the end, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique ; cell long; extending two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal 

 branch emitted at one-sixth, and second at one-twelfth before end of the cell, second 

 bifid, fourth bifid, emitted from end of the cell and touching third near its base, fifth 

 from below its juncture with the third; discocellular concave, radial from slight 

 angle at its upper end ; three upper medians from angles at end of the cell, lower at 

 nearly one-half before the end ; submedian extending near margin, slightly recurved : 

 hindwing short, broad, apex and exterior margin convex ; cell extending nearly two- 

 thirds the wing ; two subcostal branches emitted at a short distance beyond the cell ; 

 discocellular bent in the middle ; three upper medians from angles at end of the cell, 

 lower at nearly one-half before the end. Body moderately stout ; palpi porrect, first 

 and second joints laxly squamose, ascending to vertex, third cylindrical, half length 

 of the second; antennae of male thickly bipectinated; legs long, smooth. 



