LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 355 



Var. £. Band and spot of the fore wings testaceous. 

 a, b. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



c. Ashanti. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Genus 16. PHALOE. 



Corpus sublineare, fere cylindricum, sat gracile, longitudine 

 mediocri. Palpi ascendentes, recti, capite vix breviores; articulus 

 3us gracilis, 2i dimidio longior. Antennae maris sat late pectinatae, 

 foemince mediocriter pectinatae. Abdomen maris alas posticas vix 

 superans, fcemince paullo brevior. Pedes sat graciles ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Alae sat amplae, ex parte 

 hyalinae. 



Phaloe, Guer. Voy. Duperrey, Zool. ii. 283. 

 Pericopis, p., Hubn. SammL Exot. Schmett. 24, 165. 



Body nearly linear and cylindrical, rather slender, of moderate 

 lengih. Palpi ascending, straight, nearly as long as the head ; 

 third joint slender, more than half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae pectinated rather deeply in the male, moderately in the fe- 

 male. Abdomen extending hardly beyond the hind wings in the 

 male, a little shorter in the female. Legs rather slender ; hind 

 tibiae with two minute apical sua^s. Wings rather long and broad, 

 partly hyaline. 



1. Phaloe cruenta. 



Corpus supra fuseum, subtus albidum ; caput et thorax albo punc- 

 tata ; anus sanguineus ; alee integrce elongatce, utrinque antic<e 

 fuscce, maculis luteo-vitreis adapicem albis, punctis ad costam 

 versus basim rubro-sanguineis ; posticce luteo-vitrea, venis ni- 

 gris, margine lato nigro punctis minutis albis notato. 



Pericopis cruenta, Hubn. SammL Exot. Schmett. ii. 24, 165, f. 329, 



330. 

 Phaloe cruenta, Guer. Voy. Duperrey, Zool. ii. 284, Atlas, Ins. pi. 



19, f. 4. 



Buenos Ayres, 



The male has not the black band of the hind wings which dis- 

 tinguishes the female, nor is the black hind border ramose. The 

 female varies much in size, and the yellow oblique bands of its fore 

 wings are also variable, and are more or less macular. 



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