LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1205 



Male. Whitish. Frontal tuft porrect, acute. Palpi black, 

 squamous, moderately stout, obliquely ascending*, rising higher than 

 the vertex, shorter than the breadth of the head ; second joint 

 fringed above ; third lanceolate, not more than one-third of the 

 length of the second. Antennae slender, setose. Abdomen extend- 

 ing a little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft very small. Legs 

 smooth, rather stout ; spurs long, slender. Wings broad. Fore 

 wings with a few black speckles, and on the exterior part with an 

 ochraceous tinge, which is deepest in front, where it is concisely 

 limited by an elongate white spot which occupies the apical part of 

 the costa ; marginal points black ; exterior border convex, mode- 

 rately oblique. Hind wings pale brownish. Length of the body 

 4 lines ; of the wings W lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Marxmatha duplicates. 



Fcem. Flava ; vertex roseus ; palpi verticem superantes, articulo 

 So lanceolato 2i dimidio longiore ; thoracis latera antica 

 rosea ; abdomen pallide cinereum ; ala? antica striga brevi 

 costali fasciaque lata marginali roseis ; posticce pallide ci- 

 nerece. 



Female. Yellow, pale cinereous beneath. Vertex rosy. Palpi 

 smooth, rather slender, rising higher than the vertex, a little longer 

 than the breadth of the head ; third joint lanceolate, somewhat more 

 than half the length of the second. Thorax rosy on each side in 

 front. Abdomen pale seneous-cinereous, extending a little beyond 

 the hind wings. Fore wings acute, with a rosy costal streak along 

 one-third of the length from the base, and with a broad rosy mar-? 

 ginal band, which widens from the costa to the interior border. 

 Hind wings pale aeneous-cinereous. Length of the body 4^ lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Maeimatha stjbflavalis. 



Fcem. Pallide flava ; caput et thorax anticus purpureo-rufa ; 

 alee punctis marginalibus nigricantibus ; anticce fascia mar- 

 ginali sordide flava ; posticus fascia marginali fuscescente. 



Female. Pale yellow, mostly tinged with pale red beneath. 

 Head, palpi and fore part of the thorax purplish red. Wings with 

 blackish marginal points. Fore wings with a dingy yellow marginal 



