LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 395 



the inner border. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 16 

 lines. 



a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



11. NlCTEMERA APICALJS. 



Nigro-fusca ; caput et thorax alio guttata; abdomen albidum tes- 

 taceo bivittatum, subtus album e maculis nigris bivittatum, apice 

 testaceum ; ahe anticcp fuscce fascia lata obliqua alba; posticce 

 albce.fusco late marginatce, cilia ex parte alba. 



Blackish brown. Head and thorax with white dots. Palpi 

 testaceous, black towards the tips. Proboscis pale tawny. Antennae 

 black, of the female serrated. Pectus with white spots, testaceous 

 in front and along each side. Abdomen whitish, with a testaceous 

 stripe along each side; under side white, with a row of black dots 

 along each side ; tips testaceous. Legs white, with brown stripes. 

 Fore w r ings brown, with a broad irregular oblique white band which 

 does not extend to the hind border ; fringe partly white. Hind 

 wings white with broad brown borders ; fringe partly white. Length 

 of the body 6 — 7 lines; of the wings 20 — 22 lines. 



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



c. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. Zoolu Country, South Africa. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 



e. Port Natal. From Mr. Gueinzius' collection. 



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

 g. Port Natal. From M. Becker's collection. 



h. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



i — k. Port Natal. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



12. Nyctemeka Lacticinia. 



Alba ; caput et thorax anticus testacea, nigro guttata ; palpi nigri 

 basi albidi ; antenna nigra ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdo- 

 men nigro fasciatum, apice testaceum, basi lateribusque ventre- 

 que nigro guttatis ; pedes nigro vittati ; alee anticce fuscce 

 fascia non aut vix obliqua alba, venis basim versus albis ; 

 posticce albce fusco marginatce. 



Phalaena Geometra Lacticinia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 47, pi. 128, 



f. E. 

 Nyctemera Lacticinia, Hiibn. Verz. Schmeit. 178, 1847. 



Coromandel. 



