630 CATALOGUE OF 



Bessaea QUADRAT I PENNIS. 

 quadratipennis, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 181. 

 Borneo. 



Genus DIDIGUA. 

 Didigua, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 181. 



DlDTGUA PTJRPUREOSCRIPTA. 



purpureoscripta, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 181. 

 Borneo. 



Genus PITARA, C. L. H. xv. 1663. 



PlTARA SUBARCUATA. 



Mas. Alhida ; caput cervinum ; palpi erecti, caput perpaullo 

 superantes, articulo 3o conico ; antennce subsetulosa ; thorax 

 antice subcervinus, fascia cervina lateraliter nigro marginata ; 

 abdomen subcervino-albidum, lanceolatum y fasciculo apicali 

 longo attenuato ; alee anticce cinereo marginatce, costa cervina, 

 vitta media subarcuata fusca cervino marginata nigro venosa 

 annulum album includente, gutta postica nigra ; posticce iri- 

 descentes, margine subaurato. 



Male. Whitish. Head fawn-colour above. Palpi squamous, 

 erect, rising very little higher than the vertex; third joint conical, 

 minute. Antennae very minutely setulose. Thorax with a fawn- 

 coloured band, which is bordered with black on each side ; fore 

 tegulae pale fawn-colour. Abdomen whitish, lanceolate, with a 

 slight fawn-coloured tinge, extending much beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft long, tapering, slightly compressed. Legs smooth ; hind 

 tibiae dilated. Fore wings acute, cinereous along the exterior bor- 

 der and along the interior border, fawn-coloured along the costa and 

 along the hind side of a slightly curved brown middle stripe, in 

 which the veins are black ; a small white ringlet in the stripe, con- 

 taining a black point ; a small black dot near the hind end of the 

 exterior border. Hind wings iridescent, slightly gilded about the 

 borders. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



