LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA 487 



Female. Body stout, rather short, elongate-subfusiform. Head 

 rather small. Palpi stout, very much shorter than the head; third 

 joint acuminated, not half the length of the second. Proboscis 

 short. Antennae minutely pilose, not more than half the length of 

 the body. Abdomen oblanceolate, not extending quite so far as the 

 hind wings. Le<>s moderately stout; hind tibiae with two minute 

 apical spurs. Wings moderately broad, not long. Fore wings 

 slightly convex in front ; the hind angle somewhat rounded ; first 

 and second inferior veins almost contiguous at the base; third about 

 eight times nearer to the second than to the fourth. 



1. Hypoprepia fucosa. 



Rosea ; abdomen fascia lata dorsali cinerea ; alee cinerea ; antica 

 marginibus vittaque furcata roseis ; postica dimidio basali 

 roseo. 



Hypoprepia fucosa, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. 21, 236, f, 471, 

 472. 



a, b. Georgia. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



2. Hypoprepia admirabilis. 



Rosea, albo maculata ; ala antica jiava, margine antico fasciaque 

 obliqua discali ocellis nigris guttata albis, guttaque nigra albo 

 cincta ; postica? alba. 



Phalaena admirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 11, pi. 103, f. G. 



Surinam. 



3. Hypoprepia? delineata. 



Rufa ; abdomen subtus nigricans ; aim anticce strigis guttisque ba- 

 salibus ynarginibusque fasciisque tribus nigris, fascia la recta, 

 2a arcuata, 3a strigosa ; postica marginibus latissimis api- 

 c ali bus nig ris. 



Red. Proboscis tawny. Antennae brown, red towards the base. 

 Abdomen mostly black beneath. Knees and tips of the tibia? black. 

 Fore wings with a narrow black border, with some black streaks and 

 dots near the base, with an oblique straight black band beyond the 

 middle, and joining at each end another black band which is much 

 curved ; between the two there is a black dot, and the last-mentioned 

 band emits black streaks of various length towards the tip of the 

 wing. Hind wings with a black dot in front beyond the middle, 



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