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LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



16. Nyctemera Eleuteria. 



Alba ; antenna nigra, mavis latissime pectinate? ; alee, anticce apice 

 late nigrce. 



Phalaena Bombyx Eleuteria, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. 163 

 pi. 36, f. 13. r 



Cape. 



17. Nyctemera expandens. 



Fusca^subtus albida ; thorax antice subtusque luteus ; aim anticce 

 triente basali fasciaque brevi obliqua sabapicali albis ; posticce 

 albce fusco marginatce macula apicali alba. 



Brown. Head, body beneath and legs with whitish tomentum. 

 Thorax in front and pectus luteous. Palm testaceous towards the 

 base. Fore wings white except along the fore border for more than 

 one-third of the length from the base ; this white part ends very 

 obliquely, and half-way between it and the tip of the wing there is a 

 short oblique white band which is narrower hindward. Hind wings 

 white with brown borders excepting a white apical spot which is 

 broadest beneath, and there the brown hind border is interrupted. 

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



a - ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



18. Nyctemera persptcua. 



Nigra ; caput albo guitatum ; thorax albo quadrivittatus ; abdomen 

 albidum, maculis dorsalibus fuscis, apice testaceum ; aim an- 

 tic a> fuse a yitta postica fasciaque obliqua lata discali albidis ; 

 posticce albida fusco marginatce. 



Black. Head with white dots. Palpi testaceous, with black 

 tips. Proboscis tawny. Antennas black, serrated in the female. 

 Prothorax with two large vvhite-bordered spots. Thorax with four 

 white stripes. Pectus and coxa* with black dots. Abdomen whitish, 

 with a dorsal row of pale brown spots ; tip testaceous ; under side 

 white, with a row of black spots along each side. Legs whitish ; 

 fore legs occasionally testaceous. Fore wings brown, with a broad 

 irregular oblique discal whitish hyaline band which is almost con- 

 nected with a white stripe extending from the base near the hind 



