LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 791 



Liparis picta, Boisd. Herr.-Schmff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. 1, pi. 24, 

 f. 113. 



Male. Testaceous. Antennae whitish, with brown branches. 

 Thorax whitish, with aluteous band. Fore wings white, with many 

 black spots, which form a very oblique band in the disk, and with a 

 row of subminimal black dots, also adorned with three luteous 

 blackish bordered bands, one near the base, the other before the 

 middle, the third near the row of dots ; cilia testaceous ; under side 

 brown, with the row of black dots. Hind wings testaceous, with a 

 black discal dot and a row of submarginal black dots. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



, a. Cape. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



2. Lacipa ? Labda. 



Fulva ; alee anticce Jlavce, vitta obliqua fulva; posticae albce, cer- 

 vino marginatcE. 



Phalaena Labda, Cram, Pap. Exot. ii. 129, pi. 181, f. D. 



Tawny. Fore wings yellow, with a slender tawny stripe, which 

 extends from the tip nearly to the interior border at two-thirds of 

 the length of the latter. 



Surinam. 



Genus 6. AROA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi breves, 

 robusti, pilosi ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennas latissime pecti- 

 nate. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. 

 Alae latae ; posticae abdomen vix superantes. Fcem. — Antennae sub- 

 pectinatae. Abdominis latera lanuginosa. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi short, 

 j stout, hairy ; third joint very small. Antennae very deeply pecti- 

 nated. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 broad. Fore wings with the third inferior vein as far from the 

 second as the second is from the first ; fourth twice further from the 

 third than the third is from the second. Hind wings hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the abdomen. Fein. — Antennae minutely pecti- 

 nated. Abdomen lanuginose on each side. 



Africa. 



A. Alae fusco conspersae. ----- discalis, Walk. 



B. Alae nigro guttatae. 



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