LEP1DOPTERA HETEROCERA. 963 



HYPiETRA DIFFUNDENS. 



Foem. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi verticem non superantes, articulo 

 So longi-conico ; antenna setulosce ; pedes fimbriati, tarsia 

 spinosis ; alee antica dimidio basali purpurascente suffuses, 

 dimidw exteriore viridescente suffusce, fasciis tribus nigri- 

 cantibus, la cinereo marginata, 2a antice furcata, 3a mar-' 

 ginali, lineis duabus nigricantibus dentatis, punctis submar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; posticus linea fasciaque exteriore fuscis. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Palpi obliquely ascending, 

 not rising higher than the vertex; third joint elongate-conical, less 

 than half the length of the second. Antennae minutely setulose. 

 Femora and tibiae fringed ; tarsi spinulose. Fore wings with a 

 purplish tinge from the base to beyond the middle of the length, 

 and with a greenish tinge from thence to the exterior border; three 

 blackish bands ; first bordered by a cinereous line on the inner 

 side, diffuse on the outer side, ; second irregular, diffuse, forked in 

 front, attenuated hindward; a row of black points between the 

 second band and the third, which is marginal ; two dentate blackish 

 lines, the first between the first and second bands, the second mostly 

 included in the second band, where it is deep black. Hind wings 

 with a brown line and with an jexterior brown band, which contains 

 a line of the ground hue. Length of the body 10 lines; of the 

 wings 24 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



HYP.ETRA DIVISA. 



Mas. Ochraceo, ; palpi articulo So conico rninimo ; alee antieee 

 pallide cervina, linea exteriore nigra undulata antice Jiexa 

 apud enstam obsoleta, spatio exteriore f err ugineo-fusco, linea 

 submarginali nigricante diffusa undulata vix conspicua, 

 plaga postica ante media excavata ferrugineo-fusca nigro mar- 

 ginata, lituris duabus costalibus ochraceis, reniformi e puncto 

 nigro ; postica cinereo?, fusco mar ginata, fimbria testacea. 



Male. Ochraceous. Third joint of the palpi conical, very minute, 

 not more than one one-sixth of the length of the second. Fore 

 wings pale fawn-colour ; exterior line black, undulating, much 

 bent outward in front, obsolete near the costa ; exterior space 

 ferruginous-brown, paler towards the exterior border, but darker 

 than the interior part; submarginal line blackish, diffuse, undu- 



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