560 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 



1. Petovia marginata. 



Mas. Nigra; caput postice, thorax antice, mttce quatuor discales 

 abdommisque fascia testacea ; alee venis pallidis marginibus 

 nigris, antica flava>, posticce lutem. Foem.? Alee nigro 

 venosa?, anticce obscure cervince. 



Male Black. Head behind, thorax in front, four discal 

 stripes and bands on the abdominal segments testaceous. Wings 

 with pale veins and with a black indented border. Fore wines 

 yellow. Hind wings luteous. Female P Wings with black veins 

 winVl6— 1 y J faWn " Colour ' LeD S th of the bod y 5 li»es ; of the 



a. Interior of South Africa. Presented by the late Earl of Derby. 

 6, c. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Genus 136. CHARILINA. 



^ Mas. ^ Corpus sublineare, longiusculum, sat gracile. Caput 

 antice conicum. Palpi recti, capite paullo longiores ; articulus 3us 

 linearis, gracilis, 2o paullo brevior. Proboscis brevis. Antennae 

 setaceae, subpubescentes, validiusculse, corporis dimidio non lon- 

 giores. Abdomen alarum margines posticos attingens, apice fasci- 

 culatum. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae anticae subtus dentate, postica? 

 calcanbus quatuor longis. Ate latiuscute, non long* ; antic* ad 

 costam vix convexae, apud marginem apicalem obhW, angulo pos~ 

 tico rotundato, venis la 2a et 3a inferioribus basi approximatisf 4a 

 rem ota. rr ' 



Allied to OphiusaP Male. Body rather long and slender, 



T^T*'a H v^ C -° nical iu front Pal P i strai S ht > a little longed 

 than the head ; third jo.nt linear, slender, a little shorter than the 

 second. Proboscis short. Antennae setaceous, minutely pubescent, 

 rather stout, about half the length of the body. Abdomen extendi 

 mg asjar as the hind wings, tufted at the tip. Legs rather stout ; 

 tore tibiffl dentated beneath ; hind tibiae with four Ion* spurs. Wines 

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

 along the apical border ; hind angle rounded ; first, second and third 

 interior veins approximate at the base; fourth remote. 



