LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 939 



ASOPIA? VlCINALIS. 



Lutea ; aim lineis rufis, fascia lata nigra luteo guttata, 

 Phalaena-Pyralis vicinalis, Cram, Pap. Exot. iv. 164, pi. 372, f. G. 

 Surinam. 



Page 372. 



Asopia Critheisalis. 



Foera. Albida, gracilis, fuseo notata; palpi albi 9 graciles, «r- 

 cuati, ascendentes, apice fusci, articulo So parvo conico ; 

 antennce sat validm ; abdomen ochraceum, alas posticas sat 

 superans, segmentis albo marginatis, apice fusco ; almflavm, 

 iridescentes, latiusculm, lineis interiore et exterior e purpuras- 

 cente-fuscis undulatis, plaga apicali purpurascente ; anticce 

 vix acuta?, basi fusco notatm, plagis apud marginem interiorem 

 duabus purpurascentibus, linea exteriore valde flexa, reni- 

 formi oblonga subquadrata vacua. 



Female. Whitish, slender, pure white beneath. Head and 

 thorax marked with brown. Palpi white, slender, curved, ascending, 

 brown towards the tips, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 

 minute, conical. Antennae rather stout. Abdomen ochraceous, 

 extending rather beyond the hind wings ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments white; tip dark brown. Wings yellow, iridescent, rather 

 broad ; interior and exterior lines purplish brown, undulating ; a 

 purplish apical patch. Fore wings hardly acute, marked with 

 brown towards the base of the costa ; two purplish patches on the 

 interior border ; exterior line much bent ; reniform mark represented 

 by an oblong subquadrate ringlet. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



Eesembles A. latimarginalis in structure. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by E. Templeton, Esq. 



Asopia ? Niobesalis. 



Pallide ochracea ; palpi porrecti; articulus Sus lanceolatus, 2o 

 vix brevior ; antenna submonilif or mes, corpore vix breviores ; 

 aim lineis nigricantibus denticulatis, linea exteriore flexa, 

 fimbria alba ; anticm subfalcatm, reniformi parva nigricante. 



