LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1065 



Female Brown, slightly tinged with cinereous. Palpi pubes- 

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

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

 men not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; femora 

 fringed; spurs long. Wings broad, with an exterior slender 

 undulating brown line ; submarginal line cinereous, hardly curved ; 

 marginal festoon brown; fringe brownish cinereous. Fore wings 

 acute, with two slightly undulating brown lines on the inner side of 

 the transverse cinereous elliptical brown-bordered reniform mark ; 

 three whitish points towards the tip of the costa ; exterior border 

 convex, slightly oblique. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 20 lines. 



Genus AZETA, C. L. H. xv. 1578. 



AZETA APICIFERA. 



Mas. Ochracea ; palpi laves, oblique ascendentes, verticem paullo 

 superautes, articulo 3o longi-conico ; alee linea basalt inter- 

 rupta lineaque post media recta obliqua nigricantibus, linea 

 exteriore e punctis ?iigris albo notalis ; anticce linea nigricante 

 inter orbicnlarem et reniform em, reniformi subrotunda nigro 

 marginata, annulo antico nigricante, macula apicali nigra; 

 posticce linea post media subduplicata. 



Female. Ochraceous, brighter beneath. Palpi smooth, obliquely 

 ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint elongate- 

 conical, less than half the length of the second. Abdomen ex- 

 tending very little beyond the hind wings. Wings with an irregular 

 interrupted blackish line near the base, and with a straight blackish 

 line which extends from the tips of the fore wings to a little beyond 

 the middle of the interior border of the hind wings, in which it 

 is slightly double ; an exterior undulating line of black white- 

 marked points. Fore wings acute, with a black apical spot; an 

 irregular blackish line between the orbicular and reniform marks ; 

 the latter are a little darker than the ground hue, black-bordered 

 and nearly round ; a blackish ringlet between the reniform and the 

 costa. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



