LSFIDOPTERA BETXBOCBSA. .027 



riots which vary slightly in size. Length of* the body &\ linos; of 

 the wings 14 linos. 



a. Silhot. From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



Genus 107. M I EZA. 



Corpus gracile, hreyiusealmn. Palpi rooti, grsciles, eapiie 

 pa alio breviores ; articulus 3us Linearis, apice eonicas, 2o paullo 



brevior. Antenna; graciles, setaceSB, subpuboseontes. Abdomen 

 alas posticas non ant \ix superans. Pedei graciles; tibia; postlCtt 

 caloaribus quatuor longis. Ala- long?/:, angusUu; antioa; ad costam 

 subronvoxaj, apiee conica*, anglllo postico rotundato, vonis tribus 

 inferioribus basi approximatis. 



Eustixis? llubn. SammL Exot. Schmelt. 



Body slender, rather short. Palpi straight, slender, a lillle 

 shorter tban the head ; third joint linear, conical at the tip, a little 

 shorter than the second. Antennae slender, setaceous, very minutely 

 pubescent. Abdomen extending as far as or a little beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs slender; bind tibiae witb (our long spurs. Wings 

 long, narrow. Pore wings very slightly convex in front, conical at 

 the tips, with a somewhat rounded angle behind ; the three inferior 

 veins approximate at the base. Hind wings with tour inferior 

 veins; third approximate at the base, fourth remote. 



1. MlEZA IGMIUX. 



Pallide rufa avt crocea; caput supra album, vertice rufa; palpi 

 apice nigrt ; antenna nigra; thorax albus, nigro sexmaculatus ; 

 alaantica supra alba, strigis eostalibu* et apicalibus maculis- 

 que quinque discalibus nigris. 



Pale red or saffron-colour. Head white above, pale red on the 

 vertex. Palpi with black tips. Antennae black. Thorax white, 

 with six black spots, one on the disk, two on each side, and one on 

 the scutellurn. Fore tibiae and fore tarsi brown. Poie wings above 

 white with black streaks on one-third of the breadth from the costa 

 and on one-third of the length from the tips; in the rest of the wing 

 there are five elongated black spots, two before ihe middle and three 

 beyond the middle. Length of the body 3— 3J lines; of the wings 

 10— U lines. 



a. St John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq 

 b — d. United Slates. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



