404 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



4. Otroeda Cafra. 



Alee alhee ; anticce strigis duabus transversis, una humerali altera 

 mesia, apiceque marginali nigricantibus ; posticce lunula 

 punctisque submarginalibus atris. 



Phalaena (Bombyx) Cafra, Drury, App. iii. III. JExot. Ins. iii. 5, pi. 



5, f. 1. 

 Callimorpha? Cafra, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. 6, pi. 5. f. 1. 

 Sierra Leone. 



5. Otroeda Nerina. 



Alee anticce nigrce, venis basalibus luteis, fasciis duabus punctisque 

 submarginalibus albidis ; posticce fulvo-fuscce apice nigro, 

 punctis submarginalibus albis. 



Phalaena (Bombyx) Nerina, Drury, App. iii. III. JExot. Ins. iii. 



pi. 5, f. 2. 

 Callimorpha? Nerina, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. 6, pi. 5, f. 2. 



Sierra Leone. 



Genus 41. EUSCHEMA. 



Corpus sat validum, sublineare, fere cylindricum, longitudine 

 mediocri. Palpi porrecti, capite vix breviores; articulus 3us line- 

 aris, apice conicus. Antennae maris ipectumtgd, fcemince subpectinatae. 

 Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae ealcaribus quatuor parvis. Alae 

 anlicae maris angustae, fcemince latae ; posticae latissimae, abdomen 

 multo superantes ; venae inferiores quatuor. 



Euschema, Hubn. Verz, Schmett. 17 o. 

 Hazis, p., Boisd.; Blanchard. 



Body rather stout, moderately long, nearly linear and cylindri- 

 cal. Palpi porrect, nearly as long as the head ; third joint linear, 

 conical at the tip, more than half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae moderately pectinated in the male, slightly pectinated in the 

 female, more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not 

 extending near so far as the hind wings. Legs slender ; hind tibiae 

 with four short spurs. Fore wings much narrower in the male than 

 in the female. Hind wings very broad ; four inferior veins. 



