LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1641 



MlCRONIA PUELLAEIA. 



Mas. Alba ; caput nigrum, vertice alio ; palpi nigri y lineares, vix 

 ascend entes, sub tus albi, articulo So lineari ;■ alee linea mar- 

 ginali fusca ; anticce guttis nonnullis costalibus duabusque 

 subapicalibus nigris ; posticce guttis marginalibus nigris, mar- 

 gine exteriore subundulato unidentato. 

 Male. White. Head black, except the vertex. Palpi black, 

 slender, white beneath, hardly ascending, extending a little beyond 

 the. head ; third joint linear, much longer than the second. Abdo- 

 men shorter than the interior border of the hind wings. Fore legs 

 blackish above. Wings broad, with a slender brown marginal line. 

 Fore wings acute, with eight black costal dots and with one or two 

 black dots on the fore end of the exterior border, which is slightly 

 convex and rather oblique. Hind wings with ihe exterior border 

 festooned, acutely dentate in the middle ; four or five black dots, of 

 which the largest is opposite the angle. Length of the body 8— 8J 

 lines; of the wings 23— -24 lines. 

 New Guinea. 

 a. Timor. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



MlCRONIA BASIGUTTARIA. 



Fcem. Alba ; caput nigra bivittatum ; palpi porrecti, lineares, 

 supra nigri, caput non superantes ; alee lineis quatuor ochra- 

 raceis perobliquis, 4a minus ob/iqua ex parte obscuriore ; an- 

 ticce lineis apud cos tarn abbreviates, strigis duabns subcostalibus 

 ochraceis, punctis sex costalibus nigris anlemediis, guttis qua- 

 tuor subapicalibus nigris ; posticce margme exteriore. subangu- 

 lato. 

 Female. White. Head with a black stripe on each side in 

 front. Palpi porrect, linear, black above, not extending beyond the 

 head ; third joint much longer than the second. Anterior legs 

 blackish above ; hind tibiae with four spurs, not dilated. Wings 

 ample, with four ochraceous very oblique lines, which are abbrevi- 

 ated in front on the fore wings ; second and third lines double in the 

 hind wings; fourth less oblique and partly darker than the others, 

 slightly double in the fore wings, completely double in the hind 

 wings. Fore wings acute ; two ochraceous subcostal streaks, the 

 second postmedial, much shorter than the first and nearer the costa ; 



