LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 967 



blackish on the outer side ; third lanceolate, little more than half 

 the length of the second. Fore wings with three black partly 

 yellowish-bordered patches; first and second extending from the 

 interior border to the disk ; third more exterior, diffuse towards the 

 exterior border; a black yellowish-bordered dot between the first 

 and second patches, and a small interrupted black streak between 

 the second and third patches ; marginal lunules blackish. Male. 

 — Antennae setose. Thorax with a black band in front. Abdomen 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Length of the body 

 7 — 9 lines ; of the wings 16 — 20 lines. 



a—c. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



Genus OPHIUSA, C. L. H. xiv. 1418. 

 Ophiusa?? serra. 

 serra, Moriz, H-Sch. Lep. Exot. pi. 90, f. 516. 



Venezuela. 



Ophiusa dilecta. 



Foem. Ochracea ; palpi veriicem paullo superantes, articulo 2o 

 vix arcuato, So lanceolato ; alee anticce nigro conspersce, lineis 

 duubus saturate ochraceis, la ante media biangulata^ 2a post 

 media undulata^linea submarginali cinerea subundulata nigri- 

 cante marginata, spatio intermedio subobscuriore, reniformi 

 nigricante marginata apud medium contracta ; posticce flaves- 

 cente-cinerece, niyricante late marginata. 



Female. Ochraceous, pale yellowish cinereous beneath. Palpi 

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

 joint stout, pubescent, hardly curved ; third slender, lanceolate, 

 full one-third of the length of the second. Abdomen pale yellowish 

 cinereous, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Fore wings 

 black-speckled, with two dark ochraceous lines; first line at one- 

 . third of the length, forming an outward angle in the middle and an 

 inward angle nearer the interior border ; second line at two-thirds 

 of the length, undulating ; submarginal line cinereous, blackish- 

 bordered, slightly undulating ; space between the second line and 

 the submarginal line a little darker than the ground hue; reniform 

 mark 8-shaped, black-bordered. Hind wings yellowish cinereous, 

 broadly and diffusedly blackish-bordered. Length of the body 11 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Closely allied to O. cohcerens. 



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



