LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 989 



Male. White. Palpi mostly black. Antennae white, with 

 black branches. Thorax with three macular black bands. Abdo- 

 men with blackish bands, mostly black towards the tip. Wings sil- 

 very white. Fore wings with black dots at the base, with two 

 black bands, with some intervening undulating black transverse 

 streaks, and with black marks along the costa ; first band double, the 

 middle part cinereous ; second band subapical, oblique, marked 

 with white, much abbreviated posteriorly; under side white, with a 

 broad diffuse gray band beyond the middle. Hind wings gray 

 towards the tips and about the exterior margin. Length of the body 

 8 — 10 lines ; of the wings 18 — 26 lines. 



a, b. SilheL From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 

 c, d. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 e. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Genus 2. HOPLITIS. 



Corpus sat robustum, pilosum. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi 

 breves, porrecti, pilosi, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us brevis- 

 simus. Antennas thorace paullo longiores. Scapularum angulus 

 interior elevatus. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes 

 validi, pilosi ; tibiae posticse calcaribus minutis apicalibus. Ala? 

 laeves, longiusculae, sat angustae ; anticae areola appendicular^ nulla, 

 apud costam recta?, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo, 

 angulo interiore valde rotundato ; posticae vena 5a reliquis aequali. 

 Mas. — Antennae mediocriter pectinatas, apices versus nudge. 



Hoplitis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 147; Herr.-Schceff. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett. Suppl. ii. 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Esp. ; Borkh. ; Oliv. ; Hubn. ; God. 

 Harpyia, p., Ochs. ; Duponch. 



Body rather stout, pilose. Proboscis very short. Palpi short, 

 porrect, pilose, not extending beyond the head ; third joint very 

 short. Antennae a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen ex- 

 tending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; hind 

 tibiae with minute apical spurs. Wings rather long and narrow. 

 Fore wings straight along the costa, rounded at the tips, very 

 oblique along the exterior border ; interior angle much rounded : 

 discal areolet inrersected by a forked secondary vein ; three inferior 

 veins; second full four times further from the third than from the 

 second. Male. — Antennae moderately pectinated to a little beyond 

 two-thirds of the length, simple from thence to the tips. 



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