LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



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short, rather stout, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely short. Thorax with reddish marks. Antennae short, pu- 

 bescent. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout ; spurs long, unequal. Wings rather short and broad, 

 glaucous tinged. Fore wings acute, with a very broad brown middle 

 band, whose borders are undulating, the outer side bounded by a pale 

 line, which joins a yellowish costal patch ; rest of the marginal space 

 reddish, black speckled ; marginal dots black; exterior border very 

 oblique ; costa contracted in the middle part. Hind wings like the 

 fore wings in colour, but with the band comparatively narrow. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Var. /3. Male. Wings mostly rosy red, black speckled ; band 

 black -bordered, narrower in the fore wings and broader in the hind 

 wings than in var. a. 

 Sarawak, Borneo. In Mr. Saunders* collection. 



Pyralis Aonisalis. 



Mas. Cervina,valida,squamis chalyhceis micanfibus ; palpi as- 

 cendentes, breves, lati, nigricantes ; antennae robustce ; abdomen 

 alas posticas super ans ; alee albidce, basi cervince nigro squa- 

 mosce ,linea exterior e nigra valde undulata, spatio marginali 

 cervino nebulis nigris, linea marginali nigra ; anticce acuta, 

 guttis duabus discalibus nigris spatio pallide fusco inclusis ; 

 posticce litura discali e squamis nigris. Var. $. — Alee spatio 

 marginali nigro ; anticce guttis discalibus connexis. 



Male. Fawn-colour, moderately stout, whitish beneath. Body 

 and dark parts of the wings adorned with chalybeous glittering 

 scales. Palpi short, broad, ascending, mostly blackish ; third joint 

 obtuse, very short. Antennae stout. Pectus pure white in front. 

 Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, 

 slender. Wings whitish, moderately broad, fawn-colour, and with 

 black scales at the base ; marginal space fawn-colour, here and there 

 shaded with black, irregularly bordered by a black incomplete very 

 undulating line ; marginal line black, incomplete ; fringe broad. 

 Fore wings acute ; two black discal dots, the surrounding space 

 clouded with pale brown. Hind wings with a little discal cluster of 

 black scales. Var. (5. — Wings with the marginal space mostly black. 

 Fore wings with the discal dots connected. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



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