LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCER4. 403 



Var. b. Bands complete. 



Var. €. Fore spot but one of the hind wings enclosed. 



a — e. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



/. Algoa Bay. Presented by Dr. Pereira. 



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



2. Otroeda occidentis. 



Nigra; caput albo maculatum ; thorax albo bivittatus ; abdomen 

 album ; alee anticce nigra maculis marginalibus et fasciis dua- 

 bus albis ; postica albce marginibus nigris albo maculatis. 



Black. Head with white spots. Proboscis testaceous. Thorax 

 with two white stripes. Pectus clothed with testaceous hairs. Ab- 

 domen white. Legs white, with brown stripes. Fore wings black, 

 with a row of white spots along the outer border, with whitish basal 

 streaks, and with two oblique white discal bands, the second much 

 shorter and narrower than the first. Hind wings white, with a tes- 

 taceous mark behind, and with broad black borders which contain a 

 double row of white spots. Length of the body 12 lines; of the 

 wings 36 lines. 



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



3. Otroeda vesperina. 



Nigra, albo guttata ; thorax testaceo bivittatus; abdomen testa ceum, 

 fusco vittatum ; pedes albidi, fusco vittati ; alee testacece mar- 

 ginibus nigris albo maculatis, antica? strigis basalibus fasciis- 

 que duabus obliquis discalibus nigris. 



Black. Head and thorax with white dots. Proboscis testa- 

 | ceous. Thorax with two whitish testiceous stripes. Pectus clothed 



• with testaceous hairs. Abdomen testaceous, with a brown dorsal 

 stripe. Legs whitish, with brown stripes. Wings testaceous or pale 



j luteous, with black white-spotted borders. Fore wings with black 

 t streaks at the base, and with two oblique black discal bands ; black 



• borders at the tips occupying one-third of the length of the wings. 

 ! Hind wings darker than the fore wings. Length of the body 12 lines ; 

 ' of the wings 36 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented bv Sir J. Richardson. 



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