LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1069 



Genus 50. SETORA. 



Fcem. Corpus robustuin. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi validi, 

 porrecti, pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us minimus. An- 

 tenna? simplices. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes 

 validi, dense ciliati ; tibiae postica? calcaribus duobus apicalibus sat 

 longis. Ala? latae, non longa? ; antics apud costam vix convexa?, 

 margine exteriore obliquo subconvexo, interiore vix concavo. 



Female. Body stout. Proboscis very short. Palpi stout, por- 

 rect, pilose, not long, extending very little beyond the head ; second 

 joint much longer than the first ; third very minute. Antenna? 

 simple, about half the length of the body. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, thickly ciliated ; hind tibia? 

 with moderately long apical spurs. Wings broad, not long. Fore 

 wings hardly convex along the costa, slightly convex on the exterior 

 border, which forms an obtuse angle with the interior border ; the 

 latter is indistinctly concave; second inferior vein nearer to the 

 first than to the third ; fourth remote, springing from near the base 

 of the wing. 



1. Setora nitens. 



Fcem. Cervina; alee anticce nitentes fascia strigaque furcata 

 obscurioribus ; posticce pallidiores. 



Female. Fawn-colour. Fore wings shining, with a broad 

 darker changeable band before the middle; from the front of this 

 band a slender oblique darker streak proceeds to near the base of 

 the interior border, and at half its length emits a fork to somewhat 

 beyond the middle of the same border. Hind wings a little paler 

 than the fore wings. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 

 lines. 



a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



Genus 51. NIODA. 



Fcem. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 

 breviusculi, porrecti, pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us 

 minutus, conicus, acuminatus. Antenna? subpectinata?, thorace non 

 longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes sat gra- 

 ciles, antici dense pilosi ; tibia? postica? calcaribus quatuor medio- 

 criter longis ; tarsi intermedii fasciculati. Ala? sat longa? et an- 

 gusta? ; antica? apud costam subapicalem convexa?, apice rotundata?, 

 margine exteriore obliquo. 



