LEPIBOPTERA HETEROCERA, 1011 



Female. Cinereous fawn-colour, paler beneath. Palpi erect, 

 slender, rising a little higher than the vertex ; second joint with a 

 very short fringe ; third lanceolate, less than half the length of the 

 second. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 slender, slightly pilose. Wings broad, minutely brown and black- 

 speckled, with a broad brown submarginal band and with a black 

 marginal festoon. Fore wings acute, with four blackish lines, of 

 which the fourth is along the inner side of the band and is retracted 

 near the costa: a row of black points in the submarginal band. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



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



Remigia venusta. 



■ Mas. Pallide ochraceo-cinerea ; palpi oblique ascendentes, 

 verticem vix superantes, articulo So lanceolato ; antenna 

 dimidio basali setosce, basi subdildtatce ; abdomen luieum, late- 

 ribus subtus nigro sex punctatis; alcefusro conspersce, linea recta 

 obliqua fusca fascia marginali fusca interlineata, punctis sub- 

 marginalibus nigris, lineis subtus quatuor eguttis nigris; anticm 

 strigis tribus costalibus obliquis fuscis, reniformi e punctis 

 duobus nigris. 



Male. Pale ochraceous-cinereous, bright luteous beneath. 

 Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi obliquely ascending, hardly rising 

 higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, not more than one- 

 third of the length of the second. Antennae strongly setose for 

 more than half the length from the base, near which they are 

 slightly dilated. Abdomen luteous, except near the base, with 

 three black points on each side beneath. Wings brown-speckled, 

 with a straight brown line which extends from the tips of the fore 

 wings to the middle of the interior border of the hind wings ; a 

 marginal brown band, which includes along its inner border a con- 

 cise line of the ground hue, and extends on the fore wings to the 

 line above mentioned ; submarginal points black; under side with 

 four rows of black dots ; first row undulating ; second and third 

 near together ; third submarginal, of points. Fore wings acute, 

 with three oblique brown streaks on the costa towards the tip ; reni- 

 form mark distinguished by two black points above, and by an 

 elliptical blackish spot beneath. Length of the body 9 lines ; of 

 the wings 22 lines. 



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



b. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



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