LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 287 



Male. Bright red. Antennae black, minutely setulose, red at 

 the base. Thorax yellowish white, with eight black spots; fore 

 tegulse red. Abdomen with a row of transverse black spots ; under 

 side with two rows of black dots. Legs with fawn-coloured stripes. 

 Fore wings yellowish white, with three oblique very irregular bvown 

 bands ; first band basal, widely interrupted, connected by an oblique 

 streak with the second; second connected by six streaks with the 

 third, which extends interruptedly to the exterior border; two black 

 dots at the base; under side red with the exception of the brown 

 part. Length of the body 10 lines ; of 'the wings 32 lines. 



Batchian. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Areas sparsalis. 



Mas. Alba; caput antice rufescens; palpi rufi, apice nigri ; 

 thorax fusco univittatus, nigro sex maculatus ; pectus, abdo- 

 men, pedes et alee posticce rufa ; abdomen e maculis nigris tri- 

 vittatum ; alee anticce maculis coslalibus nigricanti bus, fascia 

 obliqua informi maculisque approximatis lunulisque margin- 

 alibus fuscis ; postica? macula subcostali maculisque submar* 

 ginalibus nigris. 



Male. White. Head reddish in front. Palpi red, obliquely 

 ascending, with black tips; third joint acute, not more than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae black, minutely serra-* 

 ted, white at the base. Thorax with a brown stripe, and with two 

 black spots on each side; a black spot on each of the fore tegulse, 

 which are reddish bordered. Pectus, abdomen, legs and hind wings 

 red. Abdomen with three rows of black spots; under side with two 

 rows of black spots. Tibiae above, knees and tarsi black. Fore 

 wings with some blackish spots of various size along the costa, and 

 with an irregular brown band, which widens from the tip to the 

 middle of the interior border and is accompanied by brown spots ; 

 two brown spots near the base of the interior border and some brown 

 lunules along the exterior border. Hind wings with a black spot 

 near the middle of the costa, and with an irregular submirginal 

 band of seven black spots. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the 

 wings 32 lines. 



Tond. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Areas rudis. 



Fcem. Alba; caput nigro trimaculatum, antice rufescens ; palpi, 

 pectus, abdomen, pedes et alee posticee rufa ; thorax nigro 



