﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1275 



Genus 9. TAVIA. 



Statura minor. Corpus vix robustum. Proboscis mediocris. 

 Palpi longiusculi, suberecti; arliculus 2us vix robustus, subtus 

 dense pilosus; 3us gracilis, decrescens, 2o brevior. Antennae sim- 

 plices, gracillimae, corporis dimidio multo longiores. Abdomen 

 sublanceolatum, alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, dense 

 pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longis. AlaB mediocres, integrae 

 aut subdenticulatae ; aniicae subrectangulatae, margine exteriore sat 

 obliquo. 



Size rather small. Body hardly stout. Proboscis moderately 

 long. Palpi rather long, nearly vertical; second joint moderately 

 stout, thickly pilose beneath; third slender, tapering from the base 

 to the tip, somewhat shorter than the second. Antennae simple, 

 verv slender, very much more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen tapering, extending as far as the hind wings. Legs 

 stout ; femora and tibiae densely pilose ; hind tibiae with long spurs. 

 Wings moderately broad, not or slightly denticulated. Fore wings 

 almost rectangular at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior 

 border. 



1. Tavia instruens. 



Foem. Suhferrugineo-fusca ; alee lineis iransversis ohscurioribus 

 undulatis subcinereo marginatis, fascia submarginali indis- 

 tincla, guttis suhnarginalibus nigricantibus guttisque margin- 

 alibus albis ; anticce orbiculari obsoleta, reniformi indistincta 

 cinereo ex parte marginata, macula parva discali exteriore 

 albida. 



Female. Somewhat ferruginous-brown, a little paler beneath. 

 Wings with the usual transverse lines darker brown and undulating, 

 and with somewhat cinereous borders, almost obsolete on the under 

 side; submarginal band indistinct ; a row of blackish submarginal 

 dots joining a row of white marginal dots. Fore wings with the 

 orbicular spot obsolete ; the reniform indistinct, its border partly 

 cinereous; a small whitish spot on the exterior part of the disk. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Eichardsou. 



5 s2 



