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partly luteons along the costa and along the interior border, and 

 with black blue-spangled streaks towards the exterior border, which 

 is tinged with lilac, and divided by a luteous line from the fringe, 

 which is still paler. Hind wings brown, paler towards the base, 

 with two black blue-spangled spots near the tips, which are tes- 

 taceous, and this hue extends in an attenuated streak along part 

 of the exterior border, and is accompanied by a luteous line. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Para. In Mr. J. P. G. Smith's collection. 



Genus 13. MAENAS. 



Corpus sat gracile. Antenna? simplices, corporis dimidio lon- 

 giores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Alas longiusculae, 

 non lata? ; anticse apud costam vix convexee, apice rotundata?, 

 margin e exteriore valde obliquo. 



Maenas, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 167. 



Body rather slender. Antennas simple, more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Wings rather long, not broad. Fore wings hardly convex 

 in front, rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior 

 border. 



1. Maenas Vocula. 



Alba ; thorax guttis duabus anticis vittisque tribus fuscis ; alee 

 anticce plagis costalibus, vitta discali ramosa vittaque postica 

 fuscis ; posticce guttis submarginalibus fuscis. 



Phalaena-Noctua Yocula, Stoll, Cram. Pap. ExoL v. 143, pi. 31, 



f. 5. 

 Maenas Vocula, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 167, 1727. 



Cape. 



2. Maenas Zaide. 



Rufescens ; alee anticce vittis interruptis furcatis albis strigisque 

 nonnullis fuscis ; posticce pallide fuscescentes, vitta abbreviata 

 obscuriore, margine rufescente. 



Phalaena Zaide, Stoll, Cram. Pap. JExot. v. 161, pi. 36, f. 6. 

 Maenas Zaide, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 167, 1728. 



Cape. 



