LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 317 



Abdomen obconical towards the tip, not extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs slender ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. Wings 

 broad, moderately long. 



44. Josia Mtlitta. 



Var. ? Nigra ; caput albo guttatum ; prothorax rufo bimaculatus ; 

 thorax antice luteo guttatus ; pedes subtus albo vittati; coxce 

 anticce subtus lutece; alee albo plerumque ciliatce, anticce fascia 

 media subobliqua subarcuata postice attenuata lutea. 



Phalaena Militta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 59, pi. 370, f. 1. 

 Epidesma Militta, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 177, 1823. 



Surinam. 



Var. P Black. Head with white dots. Prothorax with a red 

 spot on each side. Thorax with two luteous dots on each side. 

 Legs striped with white beneath. Fore coxae luteous beneath. 

 Wings mostly fringed with white. Fore wings with an oblique 

 slightly curved luteous band which extends very near to the borders, 

 is attenuated hindward, and ends by the tips of the hind wings. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Ega, Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



45. Josia Tbibuna. 



Lutea; caput, thoracis discus abdominisque vitta dorsalis nigra; 

 alee nigrce; anticce vitta basali fasciaque obliqua pone medium 

 luteis ; posticce vitta lata antica lutea. 



Ephialtias Tribuna, H'ubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. 24, 246, f. 491, 

 492. 



Cuba. 



46. JOSIA CONTRACTA. 



Nigra; oculi albo cincti ; caput et prothorax subtus lutea; thorax 

 maculis quatuor anticis luteis ; pedes subtus albo vittati ; coxa 

 anticce subtus lutece; alee anticce fascia media vix obliqua 

 postice valde attenuata lutea ; posticce luteo marginatce. 



Black. Head white about the eyes, luteous beneath. Thorax 

 with four luteous spots in front, luteous beneath. Legs striped with 

 white beneath. Fore coxae luteous beneath. Fore wings with a 

 nearly upright hardly curved luteous band which is fusiform for 

 two-thirds of its length, and much attenuated from thence to its end 



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