﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1135 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi as- 

 cending, rather short ; third joint elongate-conical, less than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae serrated on each 

 side with minute tufts of hairs, more than half the length of the 

 body. Thorax thickly clothed. Abdomen rather long, extending 

 for one-fourth of its length beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 small. Legs stout ; fore legs most densely clothed with long hairs ; 

 hind tibiae tufted towards the tip, with long spurs. Wings rather 

 long, moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, ob- 

 tusely angular at the tips, hardly convex and moderately oblique 

 along the exterior border. 



1. AUDEA BIPUNCTATA. 



Mas. Ferruginea; caputs anlennce et thorax anticus nigra ; abdo- 

 men cinereo-fuscum; pedes nigricantes, tarsis albidis^ femori- 

 bus anticis supra rufescentibus ; alee anticce nigricante-fuscce, 

 basi cyaneo-nigrce^ lituris subobsoletis^ linea transversa exte- 

 riore undulata nigra, lunulis marginalibus albidis nigro mar- 

 ginatis, guttis duabus ciliaribus apicalibus albis ; posticce 

 albce margine lato ceneo-fusco , 



Male. Ferruginous. Head, antennae and fore part of the 

 thorax black. Abdomen cinereous-brown. Legs blackish ; tarsi 

 with whitish bands ; fore femora reddish above. Fore wings 

 blackish brown, bluish black at the base, the usual marks almost 

 obsolete, except an exterior uudulating transverse black line ; a row 

 of minute whitish marginal lunules with black borders ; two more 

 conspicuous apical white dots on the ciliag. Hind wings white, 

 with broad aeneous-brown borders, which are attenuated towards 

 the interior angle. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 26 

 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Mr. Plant's collection. 



b. Caffraria. From M. Becker's collection. 



c. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Genus 9. STEIRIA. 



Stictopter(2 2i^ms. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocris. 

 Palpi ascendentes, longiusculi, sat graciles ; articulus 3us linearis, 

 2i dimidio longior. Antenuce graciles, subpubescentes, corpore 

 paullo breviores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans; segmen- 

 tum 2um cristatum, fasciculo apicali parvo. Pedes graciles ; tibiae 



