LEP1D0PTERA HETEROCERA. 477 



bind tibice with four long spurs. Wings rather long, moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, angular and almost falcate at 

 the tips, entire and very oblique along the exterior border ; tourtn 

 inferior vein very remote from the others. 



This genus in some characters approaches the second group of 

 Noctuites, and has a slight resemblance to the Saturniidce. 



1. EPITAUSA LjETABILIS. 



Mas. Late flava, subtus rosea; caput, thorax anticus et pedes 

 antici obscure rufa; abdomen ruf urn, subtus basi pallide tes- 

 taceum pilosissimum ; pedes rufi, ex parte flaw, calcanbus 

 qenubusque posticis albo guttatis ; al<z fusco subconsperscp, 

 rufo unilineatce ; antica lineis duabus indistmctis angulosis 

 rufescentibus interioribus, extus rufescentibus hnea rufa gut- 

 tisque duabus aut tribus albidis, orbiculari et reniformi e 

 annulis duobus rufescentibus ; posiiccz guttis duabus aut tu- 

 bus exterioribus nigris. 

 Male. Bright yellow, mostly rosy red beneath. Head, fore 

 part of the thorax and fore legs darker red. Abdomen red ; under 

 side darker, but pale testaceous and very pilose towards the base. 

 Legs red, partly yellow ; a white dot at the base of each spur and 

 on each hind knee. Wings minutely and thinly speckled with 

 brown, traversed by a straight red line, which extends from near the 

 lips of the fore wings to the middle of the interior border ol the hind 

 wino-s. Fore wings with two indistinct angulose reddish interior 

 lines; space beyond the straight line reddish, and including an in- 

 distinct angulose red line, which is marked by two or three whitish 

 dots ; a reddish costal subapical patch, behind which there is a 

 white mark on the ciliaa ; orbicular and renilorm spots forming two 

 reddish ringlets. Hind wings with two or three black dots between 

 the straigln line and the exterior border. Wings beneath brighter 

 vellow and red, with some white points along the costa near the tip, 

 with a lilac apical patch, and with a lilac line accompanying the 

 straight one. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

 a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Genus 23. AMARNA. 

 Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi 

 validi, ascendentes ; articulus 2us 3o lanceolato plus qinidruplo lon- 

 gior Abdomen alas posticas triente fere superans. Pedes vahdi •, 



