LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 327 



Group N. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Caput parvum. Proboscis nulla. 

 Palpi graciles, brevissimi. Antennae subpectinatae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas non superans. Pedes sat graciles, subpilosi, calcaribus 

 parvis. Alas anticae amplae, apice subrotundatae, margiue exteriore 

 obliquo subconvexo. 



Male. Body rather slender. Head small, deeply inserted in 

 the thorax. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi slender, very short. Antennae 

 slightly pectinated. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs rather slender, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with four small 

 spurs. Wings ample. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, 

 much longer than the hind wings ; costa straight ; exterior border 

 very slightly convex, moderately oblique ; three superior veins ; the 

 third forked ; second inferior vein twice further from the third than 

 from the first ; third more than twice further from the fourth than 

 from the second. Hind wings wilh three inferior veins ; second and 

 third united near the base. 



Lacipa nobilis. 



Panthea ? nobilis, H.-Sch. Exot. Schm. f. 388. 



South Africa. 



Genus AROA, C. L. H. iv. 791. 



Aroa Socrus. 



Gynaephora Socrus, Geyer, Zutr. iv, 12, f. 837, 838 — Aroa substri- 

 gosa, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. 794. 



Aroa ochraceata. 



Fcem. Lutea ; palpi porrecti, pilosi, capitis latitudine vix brevi- 

 oreSy articulo 3o conico ; antennce serratce ; alee anticce acutce, 

 gutta discali nigricante, linea exteriore fusca subobliqua, 

 punctis marginalibus elongatis nigris ; posticce ockracece, 

 atomis guttaque subcostali fuscis. 



Female. Luteous, stout. Palpi porrect, pilose, nearly as long 

 as the breadth of the head ; third joint conical, not more than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae serrated. Abdomen 

 extending very little beyond the hind wings. Legs short, pilose. 

 Fore wings acute, with a discal dot formed by some blackish speckles, 



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