LEFIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 851 



Rhiscipha SCISSA. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-cervina ; palpi extus fuscescentes ; thoracis 

 tegulce anticcs fuscescente marginatce ; alee anticce nigro sub- 

 conspersce, strigis costalibus lineisque tribus subrectis fuscis, 

 annulo fusco interrupto ; posticce cinerea, fuscescente mar- 

 gin atce. 



Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 brownish on the outer side. Fore tegulae of the thorax with a 

 brownish border. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings thickly black- 

 speckled, with short transverse brown streaks along the costa, and 

 with three nearly straight brown lines ; first line slightly bent out- 

 ward towards the interior border; second extending from the costa 

 to a large incomplete brown ringlet; third hardly curved inward ; 

 marginal points black. Hind wings cinereous, brownish towards 

 the exterior border. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 16 

 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Fam. HEMICERID^l, C. L. H. xii. 967. 

 Genus HEMICERAS, C. L. H. xii. 969, 



Hemiceras alba. 



Mas. Albida; caput fasciculatum ; palpi suberecti, supra fusci, 

 articulo So brevissimo ; antenna triente basali pectinatce ; ab- 

 domen pallide cervinum ; aloe anticce fusco conspersce y lineis 

 duabus e punctis nigris, 2a obliqua ; posticm iridescentes, 

 margine exteriore strigaque apud angulum interiorem cervinis. 



Male. Whitish. Head with an erect tuft on the vertex. 

 Palpi brown above, nearly erect, not rising so high as the front ; 

 third joint conical, not one-sixth of the length of the second. An- 

 tennae moderately pectinated to rather beyond one-third of the 

 length from the base. Abdomen pale fawn-colour above, extending 

 rather beyond the hind wings. Fore femora fawn-colour above. 

 Fore wings very minutely brown-speckled, wilh two incomplete lines 

 of black points; second line oblique. Hind wings iridescent ; ex- 

 terior border and a longitudinal streak near the interior angle fawn- 

 colour. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



