338 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEEA. 



rather less than half the length of the body, beset on each side with 

 short bristles. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs slender ; fore tibiae with a minute tooth beneath ; hind tibiae 

 with four small spurs. Wings long and broad, partly hyaline ; four 

 inferior veins ; fourth more remote from the third than the third is 

 from the first. 



1. ESTHEMA DICHROA. 





Nigra; caput et thorax albo guttata; abdomen cyaneum ; alee 

 latce ; antica? fasciis duabus discalibus macularibus obliquis 

 albis, apud baseos cyanece nigro strigatce ; posticce cyanece ni- 

 gro strigatce, maculisque apud marginem nigrum albis. 



Hipocrita superba Dichroa, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. Lep 



iii. Bomb. ii. Netrices iii. Hipocrita D. Superba a, f. 1 — 4 



Esthema dichroa, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 178. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



2. Esthema bicolora. 



Nigro-cyanea ; caput et thorax albo guttata; alee antic ce fascia 

 media maculari et subapicali integra albis , apud baseos cya- 

 nece nigro strigatce ; posticce strigis basalibus cyaneis et margi- 

 nalibus albis. 



Phalaena bicolora, Sulz. Ins. 161. pi. 22, f. 6. Cram. Pap. Exot. 

 ii. 74, pi. 143, f. A. 



Surinam. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b. 



c. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



d. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



3. Esthema Aletta. 



Cyanea ; alee nigrce, strigis submarginalibus albo-hyalinis. 



Phalama Aletta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 221, pi. 396. f. C. 

 Cyclosia Aletta, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 177, 1832. 



Surinam. 



