LEPIDOPTEBA HETEBOCERA. 623 



luteous at the base, and with several rather large indistinct grayish 

 bordered spots, which form two oblique irregular and incomplete 

 bands; under side and hind wings more reddish. Length of the 

 body 9 — 10 lines; of the wings 28—32 lines. 



Var. /3. Fore wings almost wholly but indistinctly mottled 

 with pale brown. 



a. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



b,c. -? 



2. Ammalo Helops. 



Ochraceus ; abdomen fasciis nigris ; alee anticce fusca, maculis dis- 

 calibus anticis luteis, basi plagisque duabus maximis exte- 

 rioribus rufescentibus ; posticce fascia lata subtestacea. 



Phalaena Bombyx Helops, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 113, pi. 72, f. C. 

 Pelochyta Helops, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 172, 1773. 



Surinam. 



Genus 10. NEMEOPHILA. 



Palpi brevissirui ; articuli subglobosi, lus 2o paullo longior, 

 3us paullo minor. Proboscis distincta, brevissima. Antennae maris 

 subbipectinatae,/cemm<£ serratee etciliatae. Corpus gracile. Thorax 

 non cristatus. Abdomen annulatum. Alae opacae, dense squamosa?. 

 Pedes sat breves ; tibiae anticae intus spina armatae, posticae apice 

 calcaratae. 



Nemeophila, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 72. Westw. $r Humph. 



Phalaena Bombyx, p., Linn. Berk. ; Don. ; Stew. ; Turt. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Wien. Verz. ; Borkh. ; Haw. 



Phalaena, p., Scop. 



Arctia, p., Schr. 



Phalaena, p., Scop.; Wilkes. 



Parasemia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 181 ; Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 54. 



1. Nemeophila Plantaginis. 



Prothorax, scapulce, abdominis margines et alee posticce in mare 

 fiava aut alba, in fcemina coccinea ; alee anticce nigra rivulis 

 flavis, ciliis flaw variegatis ; postica margine maculisque 

 nigris. 



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