LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 819 



I. Ehitta congestella. 



Mas. Subceneo-cinerea ; ala anticce pnrpurascentes, fascia basali 

 lata strigaque exteriore costali aurato-fiavis ; posticce cuprece. 



Male. Cinereous, with an aeneous tinge. Fore wings purplish ; 

 a broad gilded yellow band near the base, not extending to the costa, 

 and a broad longitudinal gilded yellow cosial streak at a little 

 beyond the middle ; this streak is connected with a bare semihyaline 

 discal spot; under side and hind wings cupreous. Length of the 

 body 3J lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Sarawak, Borneo. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus 113. BAREA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Palpi validi, valde arcuati, caput 

 superantes ; articulus 2us antice squamoso fimhriatus ; 3us seti- 

 formis, 2o brevior. Antennae pubescentes, alis anticis multo brevi- 

 ores. Pedes validi. Alae anticae elonjratae, latiusculae, apice 

 subrotundatae, margine exteriore subconvexo subobliquo. 



Allied to (Ecophora. Male. — Body stout. Palpi stout, much 

 curved, ascending above the vertex; second joint thickly fringed in 

 front, with very short squamous hairs ; third setiform, shorter than 

 the second. Antennae minutely pubescent, much shorter than the 

 fore wings. Legs stout. Wings elongate, rather broad. Fore wings 

 slightly rounded at the tips ; exterior border slightly convex and 

 oblique. 



1. Bare a consignatella. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; thorax antice nigro binotatus ; abdomen cine- 

 reum ; pedes antici niyricantes, tarsorum articulis apice 

 cinereis ; ala? anticce nigro fuscoque conspersce, plagis nigri- 

 vantibus, lineis submarginali e.t marginali e punctis nigris; 

 posticce ceneo-fusccB^ fimbria pal lide ferruginea. 



Male. Ferruginous, paler beneath. Thorax black on each 

 side in front. Abdomen and legs cinereous. Fore legs blackish ; 

 tips of the joints of the tarsi cinereous. Fore wings speckled with 

 black and brown ; a few blackish patches, of which the largest is in 

 the disk beyond the middle aud extends to the costa ; two transverse 



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