LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 1881 



Male. White. Head with a triangular black spot on the ver- 

 tex, and with a smaller black spot in front. Palpi porreet, with 

 black tips, hardly extending beyond the head. Antennae slightly 

 pectinated. Thorax with nine black spots, one on each of the fore 

 tegulse, two on each of the hind tegulae, and three in the disk. 

 Pectus with two black dots on each side. Fore wings brown, with 

 three black dots at the base, and with various white markings ; a 

 broad oblique interrupted middle band ; a short broad streak pro- 

 ceeding from the base, with three elongated marks in front of it and 

 an oval spot beyond it; a transverse sometimes interrupted streak 

 proceeding from the inner side of the band to the interior border; 

 two elongated points between the band and an exterior spot which 

 occasionally joins the eosta; another spot near the middle of the ex- 

 terior border. Hind wings with a broad brown marginal band, 

 which includes two white spots ; first spot apical; second near the 

 middle of the exterior border. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 23 lines. 

 a. Philippine Isles. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Fam. HYPSIDiE, C. L. H. xxxi. 212. 

 Genus VITESSA, C. L. H. xxxi. 219. 



VlTESSA TEHNATICA. 



ternatica, Feld. MSS. Ld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. pi. 6, f. 7. 

 Ternate. 



Fam. LITHOSIID^, C. L. H. ii. 279. 



Genus APISTOSIA, C. L. H. ii. 477. 



Apistosia tenebrosa. 



Mas. Viridi-nigra; caput, thoracis discus et pectus coccinea; 

 palpi porrecti, brevissimi ; antennce suhserraice ; abdomen alas 

 posticas vix super ans ; alee postwar nigrce. 

 Male. Greenish black. Head, disk of the thorax and pectus 

 crimson. Palpi black, porreet, very short. Antenna? minutely ser- 

 rated, rather short and stout. Pectus densely pilose. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind win^s. Wings long. Hind wings 

 black. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



In Mr. Norris's collection. 



