LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 775 



annulati ; ala anticte apice subrotundatce, fasciis tribus 

 ochraceis, guttis septem nigris, plagis posticis nigricantibus ; 

 posticcB cinerece, margine lato cinerascente. 



Straw-colour, whitish beneath. Palpi porrect, smooth, hardly 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint elongate-conical, about 

 half the length of the second. Thorax with an ochraceous tinge 

 on each side. Anterior legs with black rings. Wings with a silvery 

 cinereous fringe. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, with 

 three irregular ochraceous bands, with seven black dots, and with 

 some hindward blackish patches; exterior border straight, slightly 

 oblique. Hind wings cinereous, with a broad brownish border. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosses collection. 



Agrophila signiferana. 



Fcem. Rufescente-cinerea ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce 

 vix acutce^ dimidio basali rufescente-cinereo, macula costali 

 trigona rufescente-ferruginea, macula postica magna trigona 

 nigricante, macula reniformi elliptica lineaque submarginali 

 angulosa pallide cinereis, linea intermedia angulosa pallide 

 cinerea, maculis duabus marginalibus nigricante-cupreis ; 

 posticce fuscescentes. 



Female. Reddish fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi rather 

 slender, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; 

 second joint curved ; third elongate-conical, less than half the 

 length of the second. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings hardly 

 acute, reddish cinereous, for full half the length from the base, with 

 an irregular interrupted band which is composed of a triangular 

 reddish fawn-coloured costal spot and a large triangular blackish 

 spot on the interior border ; some small blackish costal marks; an 

 indistinct undulating transverse brownish line between the large 

 elliptical pale cinereous reniform mark and the zigzag pale cinereous 

 submarginal line; two elongated blackish cupreous spots on the 

 fringe and on the adjoining part of the exterior border. Hind wings 

 brownish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



