402 LEPFDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



Black. Head, palpi and thorax in front red. Antennae red at 

 the base. Abdomen whitish ; tip of the male luteous. Fore wings 

 blackish brown, with several large and small white spots and with a 

 row of white spots of various size along the outer border. Hind 

 wings white with three irregular and partly macular blackish brown 

 bands, ciliated with extremely long hairs along the inner border and 

 the adjoining part. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 26 

 —-30 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Eev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



b. East Indies, Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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Genus 40. OTEOEDA. 



Corpus longum, gracile, lineare, cylindricum. Palpi porrecti 

 capite paullo longiores ; articulus 3us acuminatus, 2i dimidio paull 

 brevior. Antennas maris late pectinatae, corporis dimidio paullo bre 

 viores. Abdomen alarum margines posticas non attingens. Pedes 

 graciles; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor sat longis. Alae latissimae, 

 semihyalinae, nigro notatae, venis quatuor inferioribus. 



Phalaeua, p., Cram. 

 Nycteraera, p., Hiibn. 



Body long, slender, linear, cylindrical. Palpi porrect, a little 

 longer than the head ; third joint acuminated, a little less than half 

 the length of the second. Antennae of the male deeply pectinated, 

 rather less than half the length of the body. Abdomen not extend- 

 ing so far as the hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four 

 rather long spurs. Wings very broad, especially the hind pair, semi- 

 hyaline, white or luteous with black marks ; four inferior veins. 



1. Otroeda Hesperia. 



Alba ; antenna nigrce; alee marginibus nigris albo maculatis; an- 

 ticce basi nigro strigatce fasciis duabus obliquis nigris ; posticce 

 plaga postica lutea. 



Phalama Hesperia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 99, 100, pi. 251, f. A, B. 

 Nyctemera Hesperia, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 178, 1841. 



Guinea. 



Far. /3. Bands of the fore wings indistinct, interrupted and 

 abbreviated. 



Var. y. Bands abbreviated hindward. 



