792 CATALOGUE OF 



pectinate ; abdomen subauratum ; alee antica auratce, plaga 

 basali guttam nigram includente, villa lata arcuata lineaque 

 exleriore angulosa albis, linea submarginali angulosa aurato- 

 cinerea ; posticce aneo-albida?, ceneo marginata?. 



Male and female. Pale fawn-colour, whitish beneath. Palpi 

 smooth, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint lanceolate, about half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae of the male very slightly pectinated. Abdomen slightly 

 gilded. Fore wings gilded, with a white basal patch, which includes 

 an elongated black dot near its exterior border ; a broad curved 

 white stripe which extends from one-fourth of the length of the 

 costa to the disk and rejoins the costa near the tip of the latter ; 

 a white transverse postmedial zigzag line ; submarginal line zig- 

 zag, gilded cinereous. Hind wings aeneous-whitish, aeneous 

 towards the exterior border. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a, b. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's coiiection. 



Erasteia tmpaeata. 



Cupreo-ferruginea ; palpi porrecti, subfimbriati, caput longe 

 super antes ; articulo 3o conico ; ala? antic ce linea antemedia 

 subrecta lineolam emittente fasciaque exleriore subundulata 

 albo marginata obscurioribus ; posticce cinereo-fuscce. 



Cupreous-ferruginous, cinereous beneath. Palpi porrect, 

 slightly fringed, extending much beyond the head ; third joint 

 conical, about one-fourth of ihe length of the second. Fore wings 

 with a darker antemedial nearly straight and upright line, which 

 emits from the interior border an oblique line towards the more ex- 

 terior band; the latter slightly undulating, narrower towards the 

 interior border, bordered on the outer side by a white line ; 

 marginal points black, white-bordered on the inner side. Hind 

 wings aeneous-brown. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



West Africa. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Erastria vaeipalpis. 



Foem. Schistaceo-cinerea ; palpi nigri, sublus albi ; thoracis 

 latera antica nigra ; alee antica? fascia latissima dentata nigri- 



