LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 35 



Genus 14. ALEXIS. 



Corpus lineare, cylindricum, longiusculum, sat validum, albo 

 maculatum. Palpi porrecti, capite breviores ; articulus 2us lo non 

 brevior ; 3us conicus, minimus, 2o plus quadruple- brevior. Antennae 

 in utroque sexu simplices, subsetosae. Abdomen alas posticas non 

 superans. Pedes gracillimi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus parvis 

 apicalibus. Alae longae, sat latae, maculis marginalibus albis, venis 

 quatuor inferioribus. 



Aletis, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 179. 



Body linear, cylindrical, ratber long, of moderate thickness, 

 with white spots. Palpi porrect, shorter than the head ; second 

 joint full as long as the first ; third conical, very small, not one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae simple in both sexes, 

 beset beneath with minute bristles. Abdomen not extending be- 

 yond the hind wings. Legs very slender ; hind tibiae with two 

 small apical spurs. Wings long, rather broad; four inferior veins ; 

 borders with white spots. 



1. Aletis Helcita. 



Nigra, albo confer tint maculata ; alee rufce, marginibus late nigris 

 albo maculatis. 



Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Helcita, Linn. Amcen. Acad. vi. 405, 62 ; 



Syst. Nat. ii. 763, 94. Clerck, Icon. pi. 39, f. 4, (Edw. Glean. 



pi. 340). Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2267, 94. 

 Phalaena fusulis, Linn. Mus. Ulr. 390, 25. 

 Phalaena (Noctua) Helcita, Drury, App. iii. III. Exot. Ins. iii. 40, 



pi. 29, f. 4. 

 Phalaena Helcita, Cram, Pap. Exot. ii. 48, pi. 129, f. C. 

 Phalaena macularia, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 246, 27; Mant. Ins. ii. 188, 



34 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 140, 40, 

 Aletis Helcita, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 179, 1850. 

 Callimorpha? Helcita, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. 41, pi. 29, f. 4. 



Duncan, Naturalises Library, xxxvii. Exotic Moths, 189, pi. 



33, f. 2. 



The outline of the red of the fore wings is sometimes straight, 

 sometimes angular, and in the latter case the opposite white band 

 is most interrupted. 



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