LEPIDOPTERA RETEROCERA. 539 



Whitish or hoary. Palpi blackish towards their tips. Proboscis 

 testaceous. Thorax with black dots. Anterior tibiae with black 

 bands. Fore wings sprinkled with black points and with full 

 twenty-four black dots of which there is a row across each tip ; 

 under side and hind wings blackish. Length of the body 3 lines ; 

 of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



b. Jamaica. Presented by E. Doubledav, Esq. 



Genus 117. SICCIA. 



Mas. Corpus lineare, validiusculum, breviusculum. Palpi 

 recti, graciles, pubescentes, capite multo breviores ; articulns 3us 

 acuminatus, 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae graciles, simplices, se- 

 taceae. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae 

 posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter latae, non longae ; 

 antieae costa vix convexa, margine apicali obliqua, angulo postico 

 rotundato. 



Male. Body linear, rather stout and short. Palpi straight, 

 slender, pubescent, much shorter than the head; third joint acumi- 

 nated, less than half the length of the second. Antennae slender, 

 simple, setaceous. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad, not long. Fore wings hardly convex in front, oblique along 

 the apical border; hind angle rounded; first and second inferior 

 veins near together at the base ; third further from the second than 

 the second from the first ; fourth full four times further from the 

 third than the third from the second. 



1. Siccia Caffra. 



Albida ; palpi testacei, apice fusel ; thorax nigra biguttatus ; alee 

 anticce e guttis nigris tredecimquinque fasciatce. 



Whitish. Palpi testaceous, brown towards their tips. Proboscis 

 testaceous. Thorax with a black dot on each side of the disk. 

 Fore wings with thirteen black dots which are disposed in five ob- 

 lique bands ; there is also occasionally a very oblique and zigzag 

 black streak near the hind border and towards the tip. Length of 

 the body 2f lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



b. South Africa. From M. Becker's collection, 



