LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 913 



8. Jana gracilis. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; antennae testacece, ramis obscurioribus ; 

 alee fusco ex parte nebulosce fasciisgue duabus fuscis ; posticce 

 fascia exteriore undulosa testacea. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Antennae testaceous, with darker 

 branches. Wings partly clouded with pale brown. Wings with 

 two oblique very slender nearly straight brown bands, which are 

 most distinct on the fore wings. Hind wings with a testaceous un- 

 dulating band between the outer brown band and the exterior bor- 

 der. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



a. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



b. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



9. Jana ? strigixa. 



Alee anticce pallide incarnate albidce, strigis quatuor fulvo casta- 

 neis ; posticce basi fuscce strigis tribus transversis albis, pone 

 medium fulvo castanece. Long. alar. 72 lin. 



Lasiocampa strigina, Westiv. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1849). Pt. xvii. 

 I, 37. 



Sierra Leone. 



Genus 64. C HALEPTERYX. 



Corpus robustum, dense pilosurn. Palpi porrecti. Antennae 

 thorace multo longiores. Pedes validi ; femora dense lanuginosa .; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae longiusculoe ; antic* 

 apud medium latae, apices versus angusiae. Mas. — Palpi validi, 

 dense pilosi ; articulus lus breviusculus ; 3us exiguus, conicus, acu- 

 minatus. Antennae sat late pectinatee. Alae anticae apud margi- 

 nem exteriorem undulosae ; posticae abdomen non superantes. 

 Fcem. — Palpi sat graciles ; articulus 3us elongatus, lanceolatus, 2i 

 diraidio aequalis. Antennae subpectinatae. Alae anticae apud 

 marginem exteriorem vix undulosae; posticae abdomen paulio 

 superantes. 



Chalepteryx, G. R. Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. 122. 

 Saturnia, p., Feisthamel. 



Note. — The above name having been given to this genus, that 

 of Megethna, by which it is distinguished in the Synopsis, must be 

 cancelled. 



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