LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 657 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis of the usual length. Palpi 

 porrect, pubescent, extending somewhat beyond the head; second 

 joint broad, oblique at the tip; third subclavate, hardly half the 

 length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated. Abdomen 

 with a rather large apical tuft. Legs stout ; femora broadly fringed ; 

 spurs moderately long. Fore wings subquadrate at the tips; ex- 

 terior border slightly convex and oblique. 



The structure of the palpi distinguish it from Heliophobus and 

 from Charaas. 



OxiRA OCHRACEA. 



Mas. Ochracea ; palpi extus nigri ; alee antica nigro conspersce, 

 punctis quatuor antemediis, lineis duabus duplicatis denticulatis 

 indeterminatis, linea intermedia flex a undu lata punctisque ex - 

 terioribus nigris, linea submarginali nigricante duplicata 

 subrecta, orbiculari et reniformi magnis nigro submarginatis ; 

 posticce cinereai. 



Male. Ochraceous. Body reddish beneath. First and 

 second joints of the palpi black on the outer side. Abdomen 

 cinereous. Tibiae and posterior tarsi blackish ; tips of the joints of 

 the latter cinereous ; spurs cinereous, with a broad blackish band. 

 Fore wings minutely black speckled, with four black antemedial 

 points in the disk ; two incomplete denticulated double black lines, 

 one on the inner side of the orbicular, the other on the outer side of 

 the reniibrm; a broader single bent and undulating black line 

 between the marks; a row of black points beyond the second double 

 line ; submarginal line blackish, double, nearly straight; orbicular 

 and reniform marks large, incompletely black-bordered. Hind 

 wings cinereous. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 18 

 lines. 

 a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Fam. APAMID.E, C. L. H. ix. 214. 



Genus MAMESTRA, C. L. H. ix. 221. 

 Mamestra sylvatica. 

 sylvatica, Bel. Char. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ser. 4. i. 29, pi. 2. 

 Corsica. 



