358 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



and there contains some whitish spots, in front it is slightly indented 

 and contains a luteous streak. Wings much paler beneath. Length 

 of the body 6£ lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 

 a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus 19. MASSAGA. 



Corpus gracile, sat longum. Palpi pilosi, capite breviores ; 

 articulus 3us acuminatum, minimus. Antennae graciles, extrorsum 

 submcrassatae. Alae lata?, fasciis semihyalinis ; anticse venis quatuor 

 inferioribus ; posticae abdomen superantes. 

 Chalcosia, p., Hubn. Verz. Sehmett. 173. 



Allied to the Rhopalocera. Body slender, linear, moderately 

 long. Palpi shorter than the head, hairy ; third joint acuminated, 

 very minute. Antenna? slender, shorter than the body, very slightly 

 increasing in breadth from the base nearly to the tips. Legs hairy ; 

 hind tibiae with four spurs ; apical pair long. Wings broad, with 

 white semi-hyaline bands; fore wings with four inferior veins ; hind 

 wings extending beyond the abdomen. 



1. Massaga Hesparia, 



Nigra, purpureo cyaneoque nitens ; caput, palpi, prothorax et pedes 

 antici coccineo-hirta ; alee albo unifasciatce. 



Phalaena Hesparia, Cram. Pap. ExoL i. 87, pi. 56, f. C. 

 Chalcosia Hesperina, Hubn. Verz. Sehmett. 173, 1786. 

 Demerara. 



Black, with purple and blue reflections. Head, palpi, protho- 

 rax, fore coxae and fore femora clothed with crimson hairs. An- 

 tennae and proboscis piceous. Fore wings with a nearly upright 

 middle band which is very slightly concave on its inner side and 

 much dilated in the middle of its outer side; tips fringed with white 

 hairs. Hind wings with a broad white band which decreases slightly 

 in breadth from the middle of the inner border to near the middle 

 of the fore border where it ceases. Length of the body 6—8 lines • 

 of the wings 18 — 24 lines. 



Var. $. Bands of the wings very narrow, 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 

 b - ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



