LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1033 



Male. Testaceous. Head, palpi and fore part of the tho- 

 rax mostly ferruginous-brown. Antennae testaceous, with brown 

 branches. Abdomen brown at the lip, and with brown spots along 

 each side. Fore wings dark brown, with a few slight transverse 

 reddish and blackish streaks, aud with a slender zigzag subapical 

 blackish testaceous-bordered band, which here and there emits short 

 blackish streaks towards the exterior border ; under side testaceous, 

 shining. Hind wings pale brown, whitish testaceous towards the 

 base. Length of the body 6^ lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. L. James' collection. 



Genus 28. NEOLA. 



Corpus robustum. Caput bifasciculatum. Proboscis capitis 

 latitudine paullo longior. Palpi robusti, porrecti, pilosi, caput vix 

 superantes ; articulus 3us parvus, conicus. Antennae thorace lon- 

 giores. Thorax cristatus. x\bdomen alas posticas paullo superans. 

 Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae longius- 

 culae, mediocriter latae ; anticae a pud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, 

 margine exteriore perobliquo. Mas. — Antennas mediocriter pecti- 

 nate. Fcem. — Antennae simplices. 



Body stout. Head with a tuft on each side in front. Proboscis 

 a little longer than the breadth of the head. Palpi stout, porrect, 

 pilose, extending very little beyond the bead ; third joint small, co- 

 nical. Antennae longer than the thorax. Thorax crested above, 

 tufted on each side behind. Abdomen extending for one-fourth of 

 its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; femora and tibiae 

 pilose ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings rather long, mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, rounded at the 

 tips, very oblique along the exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; 

 discal areolet intersected by a secondary vein ; three inferior veins ; 

 second much further from the third than from the first. Male. — 

 Antennae moderately pectinated, bare at the tips. Female. — An- 

 tennae simple. 



1. Neola semiaurata. 



Cinereo -nigra ; abdomen aureo-ft arum ; tarsi albido fasciati ; ala 

 anticce albido conspersce et bimaculatce ; poslicce aureo-flavce, 

 fusco marginatce. 



Blackish. Head and thorax with some cinereous and brown 

 hairs. Proboscis and antennae tawny. Abdomen and hind wings 

 gilded yellow, the latter slightly bordered with brown. Tibiae and 

 tarsi pale beneath ; tarsi with whitish bands. Fore wings tinged 



