LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 793 



3. Aroa? adspersa. 



Mas. Citrina ; alee anticce apud discum albida, e guttis nigris 

 fascials ; posticce albida 1 , 



Liparis adspersa, Herr.-Schaff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. i. pi. 24, f. 109 

 (1854). 



Male. Lemon-colour. Fore wings whitish in the disk, with 

 an oblique discal band of four black dots, and with a fifth a little 

 beyond towards the tip. Hind wings whitish. 



Port Natal. 



4. Aroa crocata. 



Mas. Testacea ; abdomen apice luteum ; alee anticce macula dis- 

 cali aurantiaca. 



Liparis crocata, Boisd. Herr.-Schaff'. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. i. pi. 24, 

 f. 112(1854). Mas. 



Var. Fore wings with a short slight oblique blackish band 

 behind the red discal spot, and with a black discal dot by the 

 interior angle. 



Cape. 



Male. Testaceous. Antennae with brown branches. Tip of 

 the abdomen with a luteous tuft. Fore wings with an orange spot 

 a little in front of the middle of the disk ; with this spot there are a 

 few black-tipped feathers, some of which also occur near the outer 

 and the inner borders. This is very nearly allied to O. punctifera, 

 but its fore wings are rather more pointed ; in O. punctifera they 

 are somewhat rounded, and without a discal spot. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



*. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 

 b. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



5. Aroa pygm^a. 



Mas. Flava, subtus albida ; antenna fulvce ; abdomen et aUe 

 posticce albida. 



Male. Yellow, whitish beneath. Antennae tawny. Abdomen 

 and hind wings whitish. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



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



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