LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 409 



= West Indies. 



6. OCHRO PLEURA?? APRONIA. 



Fusca ; alee luleo ciliatce ; anticce purpurascente cinerece lineis 

 transversis fuscis, plagis guttisque nigris, extusfuscce. 



Phalaena-Noctua Apronia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 222, pi. 396, f. E. 

 Megasema Apronia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 222, 222b. 



Berbice. 



7. OCHROPLEURA VICARIA. 



Foem. Rufescens, vertice, thoracis fascia abdomineque albido~tes- 

 taceis ; alee anticce costa albido-testacea, striga basali sub- 

 interrupta nigra orbicularem parvam subrotundam includente^ 

 reniformi distincta, lineis transversis indistinctis, guttis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; posticce albce. 



Female. Keddisb. Vertex wbitish testaceous, Tborax witb 

 a baud of tbe same hue, and witb some brown hairs in front. Ab- 

 domen whitish testaceous. Fore wings whitish testaceous along 

 three-fourths of the length of the costa, with a black slightly inter- 

 rupted basal stripe, which includes the orbicular spot, and extends 

 as far as the reniform ; orbicular nearly round, rather small ; reni- 

 form of the usual shape ; transverse lines indistinct ; a row of black 

 marginal dots. Hind wings white. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. South Africa, Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 

 Australia. 



8. OcHROPLEURA TORTISIGNA. 



Cervina ; thorax posticus fuscus ; alee anticce ferruginece, nigri- 

 cante suffusce, venis nigricantibus, plagis duabus elongatis 

 discalibus, striga longa discali nigro-fusca extus dilatata, or- 

 bicularem et reniformem albas includente, orbiculari ovata 

 perparva, reniformi e linea contorta, costa albida ; posticce 

 pallide testacea,marginibus latisfuscis. 



Nearly allied to O. plecta. Head and fore part of the thorax 

 fawn-colour. Thorax brown hindward. Fore wings ferruginous, 

 with a blackish tinge ; two large fusiform marks in the disk ; veins 

 blackish ; a long blackish brown streak in the disk, widening out- 

 wards and containing the orbicular and reniform spots, which 



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