LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1467 



Male. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Frontal tuft porrect, 

 acute. Palpi obliquely ascending 1 , not rising higher than the ver- 

 tex ; second joint with a short thick fringe above and beneath; third 

 conical, not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. An- 

 tennae setose. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind 

 wings ; apical tuft very small. Legs smooth. Wings with a browu 

 marginal festoon. Fore wings acute, brown-speckled, clouded with 

 brown towards the exterior border; submarginal line fawn-colour, 

 slightly zigzag ; marginal points brown ; reniform mark large, pale 

 cinereous; three pale cinereous costal points beyond the middle; 

 exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Length of the 

 body 4£ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



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



SCOPULA SEMIKOSEALIS. 



Mas. Pallide Jlava ; palpi porrecti, rostriformes, pilosis capitis 

 latitudine non breviores, articulo So lanceolate* ; thoracis 

 latera antica rosea; alee anticce albida?, basi flavescentes, 

 fascia lata antemedia, plaga magna costali fasciaque marginali 

 roseis ; posticus albidce^ linea submaryinali arcuata Jlaves- 

 cente. 



Male. Pale yellow, whitish beneath, rather stout. Palpi por- 

 rect, ros triform, pilose, as long as the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the second. Maxillary 

 palpi less than half the length of the labial palpi. Antennae slender, 

 minutely crenubted. Thorax rosy on each side in front. Fore 

 wings acute, whitish, except at the base, with a broad antemedial 

 rosy band, which is connected with a lar^e rosy costal patch, the 

 latter extending nearly to a rosy marginal band ;. exterior border 

 convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings whitish, with a curved 

 yellowish submarginal line. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



SCOPULA FERRISCRIPTALTS. 



Mas. Ochracea ; oculi flavescente cincti ; palpi porrecti, rostri- 

 formes, articulo 3o brevi lanceolato ; antenna? pubescentes, vix 

 serratcB ; abdomen alas posticas vix superans ; alee fimbria 

 chalybao-cinerea ; antica? strigis longitudinalibus lineaque 



