LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1363 



23- DlRPHlA ANGULIFERA. 



I Mas. Pallide fusca; antennce albidce ; abdomen supra luteo- 

 fulvum ; alee anticaz macula coslali basim versus fasciaquc 

 obliqua exteriore albidis necnon fascia brevi angulata discali 

 alba ; posticce litura discali transversa pallide testacea fasciaquc 

 exteriore fusca. 



Male. Pale brown. Antennae whitish. Abdomen above 

 uteous-tawny. Wings with a slight tawny tinge at the base. 

 Pore wings with an oblique whitish mark on the costa near the 

 >ase, with a large angular white spot in the disk, and with a slender 

 )blique undulating exterior whitish band, which is dilated and 

 .vhiie in front; under side with a brown exterior band. Hind 

 wings with a transverse elongated pale testaceous dot, and with an 

 exterior brown band, which is accompanied by a whitish band along 

 the inner side beneath. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 

 30 lines. 



i. Peru. From Mr. Children's collection. 



Group 12. 



Feem. Corpus vix robustum. Palpi mediocres, caput fere 

 superantes. Alae anticae vix latae, apud costam subconvexae, apice 

 subacuminatae, margine exteriore recto sat obliquo ; posticae abdo- 

 men paullo superantes. ' 



Female. Body rather slender. Palpi stout, of moderate 

 length, extending very little beyond the head. Antennae wanting. 

 Fore wings hardly broad, very slightly convex in front, slightly 

 acuminated at the tips, straight and rather oblique along the exte- 

 rior border; second inferior vein full four times further from the 

 jthird than from the first. Hind wings extending a little beyond 

 ithe abdomen. 



24. DlRPHIA SPECIOSA. 



Foem. Caput et thorax luteo-fulva ; abdomen supra nigricans, 

 apice luteo-fulvum ; alee cervinee ; anticee striga discali angu- 

 lata alba nigro bivittata. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus speciosa, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 16, pi. 



107, f. B. 

 Borabyx speciosa, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. v. 38, 52, pi. 71, f. 1. 



