LEPiDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1083 



Fore wings 'acute, subfalcate, with a blackish zigzag line near the 

 base ; orbicular and reniform marks large, brown-bordered, the 

 former round, the latter of the usual shape ; fringe white towards 

 the tip of the wing. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 26 

 lines. 



ct. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



Hypernaria hilarts. 



Mas. Late ochracea ; caput cervinum, lateribus rufis ; fasciculi) 

 front'ili producto subtus rufo ; palpi subascendentes, capitis 

 latitudine multo longiores, articulis lo 2oque rufo vittalis, 

 So lineari apice rufescente ; pedes rufi, tibiis anticis cinereis 

 fimbriatis ; alee amplce, purpurascente-cinereo subtectce, linea 

 basali obscuriore angulosa, linea obscuriore exteriore recta 

 obliqua ochraceo saturato maryinata, linea submarginali 

 e punctis albis nigro notatis ; antica linea obscuriore 

 media angulosa, orbiculari viridescente-cinerea, reniformi 

 magna nigro nebulosa et submarginatu, puncto subcostali 

 nigricante. 



Male. Bright ochraceous. Head and thorax fawn-colour, the 

 former bright red on each side. Frontal tuft very prominent, bright 

 red beneath. Palpi slender, cinereous, pubescent, very slightly 

 ascending, much longer than the breadth of the head ; first and 

 second joints bright red on the outer side ; third linear, reddish at 

 the tip, full half the length of the second. Antenna? long, slender, 

 setose. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft small, compressed. Legs bright red, smooth, slender; 

 tarsi fawn-colour ; fore tibiae cinereous, fringed. Wings very 

 ample, slightly and partly tinged with purplish cinereous ; a dark 

 ochraceous zigzag line near the base, and another dark ochraceous 

 straight oblique line mostly bordered with deep ochraceous on the 

 outer side, and extending from the tips of the fore wings to some- 

 what beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings ; a 

 submarginal line of white black-marked points; marginal lunules 

 dark ochraceous, more or less bordered with purplish white. Fore 

 wings acute, with a middle zigzag dark ochraceous line between the 

 orbicular and reniform marks ; orbicular mark greenish cinereous, 

 nearly round ; reniform large, partly black-shaded, incompletely 

 black-bordered ; a blackish point between the reniform and the 



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