LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 361 



Body nearly cylindrical, rather stout, of moderate length. Palpi 

 vertical, shorter than the head ; third joint less than half the length 

 of the second. Antennae of the male slightly pectinated, of the 

 female minutely pectiuated. Ahdomen oblanceolate in the male, 

 fusiform in the female, extending as far as the hind wings. Legs 

 rather slender; fore tibiae excavated beneath; hind tibiae with two 

 minute apical spurs. Wings long, rather narrow, with semihyaline 

 spots. 



1. Composia Sybaris. 



Atra, subtus alba; corpus et alee albo confertim guttata; alee 

 anticce maculis quatuor anticis basalibus subquadratis coc~ 

 cineis. 



Phalaena Bornbyx Sybaris, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 112, pi. 71, f. E. 



Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. d!Afr. et Amer. Lepid. pi. 24, f. 7. 

 Bornbyx credula, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1,475. 

 Composia credula, H'ubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. Lep. iii. 



Phal. ii. Verce, viii. Callimorphce B. Variegates^ ii. f. 1 — 4 ; 



Verz. Schmett. 179, 1851. 

 Hypercompa ? Sybaris, Duncan, Nat. Libr. xxxviii. Exotic Moths, 



186, pi. 23, f. 1. 



a, b. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection, 

 c, d. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Genus 23. OPHTHALMIS. 

 Ophthalmis, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 166. 



1. Ophthalmis Lincea. 



Nigra ; thorax margine antico albo ; abdomen apice luteum ; alee 

 anticce cyaneo trimaculalce apice lutece ; posticce luteo late 

 marginatce. 



Phalaena Lincea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 61, pi. 228, f. B. 

 Ophthalmis Lincea, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 166, 1719, 



Surinam. 



Genus 24. EUCYANE. 



Corpus subcylindricum, fere lineare, sat validum, mediocriter 

 longum. Palpi ascendentes, capitis longitudine ; articulus 3us 

 linearis, 2i dimidio paullo longior. Antennae maris pectinatae, 

 fcemince serratae. Abdomen alarum margines posticas non aut vix 

 attingens. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. 

 Alae amplae, venis quatuor inferioribus. 



