LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 455 



dots on each side. Legs whitish ; coxae luteous ; femora and tibiae 

 with blackish stripes. Fore wings brown, yellow at the base, along 

 the fore border, and for about one-third of the length from the tips ; 

 several black dots at the base ; two white spots in the brown part at 

 one-third of the breadth from the fore border, the second larger than 

 the first, beyond it the brown part emits a lanceolate streak towards 

 the tip of the wing. Hind wings brown with broad yellow borders; 

 under side with a curved yellow streak in the disk, Length of the 

 body 9 lines ; of the wings 27 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



15. Hypsa Mauritia. 



Cervina ; thorax nigra maculatus ; abdomen rufum maculis late- 

 ralibus rufis ; pedes rufi ; alee anticce apud discum pallidiores ; 

 posticus albidce margine lata cervina. 



Phalaena Mauritia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 105, pi. 345, f. B. 

 Rhodogastria Mauritia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 172, 1775. 



Mauritius. 



16. Hypsa chloropyga. 



Late testacea ; palpi et antennce nigricantes ; thorax nigro bigutta- 

 tus ; abdomen fasciis tribus anticis apiceque nigro-viridibus ; 

 pedes cani, nigro varii ; alee anticce guttis duabus basalibus 

 nigris maculisque quinque discalibus rufis. 



Bright testaceous. Proboscis paler. Palpi and antennae blackish. 

 Thorax with a black dot on each side near the base of the fore 

 wing. Abdomen above with three slender blackish green bands on 

 the fore borders of the segments between the base and the middle, 

 first and third band interrupted ; apical segment blackish green 

 above. Legs hoary ; fore femora with black stripes ; fore tibiae and 

 fore tarsi blackish ; posterior femora testaceous. Fore wings with 

 two black dots at the base and with five small red spots in the disk, 

 four of them in a line nearly parallel to the fore border and the 

 second, third and fourth nearer to it than to the hind border, the 

 fifth nearest to the hind border and between the second and third as 

 to distance from the base. Length of the body Uplines; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



a. Australia. From the Voyage of H. M.S. Rattlesnake. 



