LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERa. 635 



1. Glanycus jnsolitus. 

 Nigra ; thorax coccineo hirtus ; abdomen nigro-cyaneum, fascia 

 antica, vitta dorsali fasciisque quatuor posticis coccineis ; alee 

 anticcB fascils quatuor coccineis strigaque obliqua discali hi/a- 

 lina ; posticce maculis guttisque nigris maculaque discali f ar- 

 eata limpida. 



Black. Thorax with crimson hairs. Abdomen blackish blue, 

 with a dorsal crimson stripe, with a crimson band in front, and with 

 four crimson bands towards the tip. Fore wings with four irregular 

 crimson bands, the first at the base, joined in the middle to the 

 second, which is joined in front and near the hind border to the 

 third ; the third is joined in like manner to the fourth, which 

 is widened in front; along an indentation on the outer side of the 

 third band there is an oblique hyaline streak. Hind wings crimson, 

 with three very large black spots, one at the base, two in the disk, 

 and with some small black spots along the border; a large forked 

 hyaline spot in the disk. Length of the body 5£ Hues ; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



a. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus 17. DIACRISIA. 



Palpi porrecti, mediocres, subpilosi; articulus lus 2obrevior; 

 3us sat gracilis, cylindricus. Proboscis distincta brevis. Antenna? 

 sat breves, graciles, maris bipeetinatae, fcemina se.rratae. Alas 

 opacas, dense squamosa?. Thorax baud cristatus. Abdomen annu- 

 latum. 



Phalaena Noctua, p., Linn. 



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



Phalaena, p., Srop. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Esp. ; Borhh.; Illig.; Huhn. ; Haw.; Treits. 



Arctia, p., Schr. ; Latr. ; Meig. 

 | Hypercompa, p., H'ubn. 



Eyprepia, p., Ochs ; Curt. 



Diacrisia, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 169 ; Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 

 , Euthemouia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 68. 



1. Diacrisia Russula. 



Ala; antica; maris lutea, limbo sanguineo, lunula f us ca ; foeminae 

 fulva;, vents lunulaque rufis ; postica; aurantiaca; fascia mar- 

 ginali fusca. 



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