LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 77,1 



Spilodes Palindialis, Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 380, 479. 

 Brazil. 



Africa. 



17. Spilodes Nitetisalis. 



Mas et foam. Flavescente-alba ; caput palllde cervinum ; palpi 

 cervini, porrecti, latiusculi, non longi, subtus albi ; antenna 

 glabra; thoracis latera antica ochracea; alee ampla, lineis 

 interiore et exteriore cinerascentibus, hac undulata, ilia indis- 

 tincta ; antica acuta, costce dimidio basali ochraceo, linea 

 exteriore flexa, orbiculari et reniformi indistinctis. Mas. — 

 Abdomen alas posticas sat superans. Foem. — Abdomen alas 

 posticas vix superans. 



Male and female. Yellowish white, slender. Head pale fawn- 

 colour ahove. Palpi fawn-coluur above, porrect, rather broad, not 

 long ; third joint very minute. Antennae smooth. Thorax ochra- 

 ceous on each side in front. Wings ample; interior and exterior 

 lines grayish ; the former indistinct ; the latter undulating-. Fore 



"I wings acute; costa ochraceous for about half the length from the 

 base; exterior line bent; orbicular and. reniform marks indistinct. 

 Male. — Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. 

 Female. — Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. 



• Length of the body o\ — 7 lines ; of the wings 12 — 14 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



b. North Hindostan. Presented by Gen. Hearsay. 



Country unknown. 

 18. Spilodes? Dasconalis. 

 Foem. Flava, gracilis ; caput antice luteum ; oculi albo cincti ; 

 palpi lutei, obtusi, oblique ascendentes, subtus albi, non longi 

 nee lati; antennae longiuscula ; abdomen alas posticas n.r 

 superans, segmentis albo marginatis ; ala non lake, lineis in- 

 teriore et exteriore luteis obliquis, margine exteriore subluteo ; 

 antica: vix acuta, costa lutea, linea exteriore rupta, reniformi 

 e striga arcuata. 

 Female. Ochraceous, rather slender. Head white about the 

 eyes. Palpi fawn-colour, obliquely ascending, not long nor broad, 

 white beneath towards the base; third joint minute, concealed by 



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