LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERJL. 265 



Body nearly linear. Head small. Eyes not prominent. Pro- 

 boscis short. Palpi short and thick ; third joint very small. Antennae 

 slender, filiform, simple, bare. Thorax hairy. Abdomen more than 

 twice the length of the thorax. Fore wings long and narrow, 

 opaque ; discal areolet small, at before half the length ; emitting 

 only three veins, two from the tip, slightly inclined to the hind 

 border; third emerging from the hind border and proceeding 

 directly to the border of the wing. Hind wings very small, not 

 more than one-fourth of the length of the fore wings. Legs rather 

 stout ; femora thickly pilose ; hind tibiae with no middle spurs ; 

 apical pair very small. 



114. Etjchromia diptera. 



Mas. Atra ; antennce filij or mes, graciles, nudce, simplices ; abdo* 

 men longum, attenualum, e maculis flavis bivittatum, subtus 

 aurantiacum apice testaceum; alee cyanece, anticce long ce an- 

 gusta, posticce breves ; pedes testacei, coxis nigris. 



Male. Deep black. Antennae filiform, slender, bare, quite 

 simple, longer than the thorax. Palpi very short. Wings metallic 

 blue. Fore wings long, narrow. Hind wings not more than one- 

 third of the length of the fore wings. Abdomen long, tapering from 

 the base to the tip, with a row of yellow spots along each side ; 

 under side orange, testaceous towards the tip. Legs testaceous ; 

 coxae black ; femora clothed w r ith orange hairs. Length of the body 

 10 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson. 



Group 29. EUCEREEON. 



Corpus validiusculum, fere cylindricum. Palpi mediocres, 

 arcuati ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae graciles, subpectinatae. 

 Alae opacae, maculatae. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longiusculis. 



Eucereon, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 123. 

 Sericaria, Anon. Ins. Surinam, 149. 



Body rather stout, nearly cylindrical. Palpi moderately long, 

 curved ; third joint very minute. Antennae slender, minutely pecti- 

 nated to the tips. Wings opaque, spotted. Legs moderately stout ; 



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