460 LEP1DOPTEBA HETEEOCEEA. 



27. Hypsa speciosa. 



Fulva ; aim anticce medio, posticceque albidce ; illce basi fulvce 

 maculis sex parvis nigris, dimidio apicali obscuriore. 



Phalaena Noctua speciosa, Drury, III. ExoU Ent. ii. Appendix. 

 Noctua? speciosa, Westw. ed. Drury, ii. 10, pi. 5, f. 2. 



Sierra Leone. 



28. Hypsa? Arthus Beetrand. 



Cervina ; caput et thorax nigro maculata ; abdomen stramineum, 

 basi et apice pallide rufescens ; alee anticce albido-cervince, 

 fascia media postice abbreviata apiceque fuscis ; posticce sor- 

 dide substraminece, apice obscuriores. 



Lithosia Arthus Bertrand, Guer. Voy. de la Coquille, Ins. pi. 19, f. 5. 

 New Guiiiea. 



Genus 66. CARYATIS. 



Mas. Corpus lineare, validum, sat longum. Palpi capite 

 longiores ; articulus 2us lo brevior; 3us 2o brevior non gracilior, 

 apice obtusus. Antennae gracillimae, subsetosae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas paullo superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae postica? calcaribus 

 quatuor parvis. Alas longae, sat angustae ; anticae ad costam sub- 

 convexae, postice subangulatae. 



Caryatis, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 171. 

 Callimorpba? p., Westw. 



Connects Hypsa with the other Lithosii. Male. Body linear, 

 stout, rather long. Palpi longer than the head ; second joint shorter 

 than the first; third shorter but not more slender than the second, 

 obtuse at the tip. Antennae very slender, beset with minute bristles. 

 Proboscis rather long. Abdomen extending for one-fourth of its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four 

 small spurs. Wings long, rather narrow. Fore wings slightly con- 

 vex in front, slightly angular behind ; first and second inferior veins 

 united at the base ; third very little nearer to the second than to the 

 fourth. 



1. Caryatis Phileta. 



Sanguinea ; thorax nigro vittatus ; abdomen jlavum, guttis dorsali- 

 bus nigris ; ales anticce oblongce fuscce, fascia transversa pone 

 medium alba ; posticce flavce margine externo nigro. Long, 

 alar. 27 lin. 



