LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1821 



tips. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 rather stout; spurs slender. Fore wings rather broad, rounded at 

 the tips ; exterior border convex, very oblique. 



UCETIA BIFASCIELLA. 



Mas. Cuprea ; caput et thorax pallide ochracea ; antennm nigra, 

 basi ochracece, apice alba? ; alee anticce auralo-jlavm, fasciis 

 duabus vittaque coslali brevi nigricantibus chalybao interline- 

 aiis 9 spatio apicali cupreo. 



Male. Pale ochraceous. Antennae black towards the end of 

 the tufted part; smooth part silvery white. Abdomen, hind wings 

 and under side cupreous. Fore wings gilded yellow ; two narrow 

 bands and a costal stripe extending from the base to the first band 

 blackish, interlined with chalvbeous? space beyond the second band 

 cupreous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Genus SIPPHARARA. 



Mas et fcem. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi 

 porrecti, graciles, subfimbriati, caput longe superantes; articulus 

 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio lon^ior. Antennae glabrae, corpore lon- 

 giores. Abdomen alas posticas longe superans. Pedes glabri, lon- 

 giusculi, sal graciles; calcaria longa, gvacilia. Ala? antica? amplae, 

 apice rotundatae, margine exteriore valde arcuato. 



Male and female. Body slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi 

 porrect, slender, with a short fringe beneath, extending much beyond 

 the head; third joint lanceolate, more than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae smooth, longer than the body, nearly as long as 

 the fore wings. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs smooth, rather long and slender ; hind tibiae with a short 

 fringe ; spurs long, slender. Wings very long. Fore wings rounded 

 at the tips; exterior border much curved; two branches proceeding 

 from the subcostal vein, connected by a transverse veinlet opposite 

 the end of the areolet ; a vein springing from the end of the areolet, 

 at half the distance between the second branch of the subcostal vein 

 and the first inferior vein ; first inferior vein rather remote from the 

 second; second, third and fourth nearly contiguous to each other 

 at the base. 



