LEPIDOPTERA HFTEROCERA. 749 



Bright red. Head with a black spot on tbe vertex, black 

 behind with a white band. Proboscis ferruginous. Palpi black ; 

 white beneath, red above at the base. Antenna? black, red at the 

 base, Protborax and lappets white, the latter in front with black 

 borders, which are streaked with white. Abdomen with a slender 

 dorsal interrupted black whitish-bordered stripe ; tip brown ; under 

 side with alternate black and white bands, the white bauds very 

 broad towards the base. Legs blaek, streaked with white. Wings 

 ochraceous, red at the base; most of the fore border, and a small 

 part of the hind border white ; a red spot on the fore border beyond 

 the middle ; a basal mark, two discal bands, and a row of subapical 

 streaks hoary, with black borders ; first band nearly straight, not far 

 from the base of the wing; second angular in the middle ; streaks 

 interlined with black. Hind win^s with a black discal spot near the 

 fore border, and a row of apical black streaks. Length of the body 

 9 lines; of the wings 30 lines. 



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



b. Mexico. From M. Hartweg's collection. 



Genus 58. ONYTHES. 



Mas. Corpus longiusculum, sat robustum. Proboscis longa. 

 Palpi longiusculi, validi, ascendentes; articulus 2us lo valde lon- 

 gior ; 3us parvus conicus. Antennae subpectinatae, corpore paullo 

 breviores. Abdomen alas posticas triente superans. Pedes sat 

 validi, femora basi coxaeque pilosa ; tibiae posticae calcaribus qua- 

 tuor mediocriter longis. Alae longiusculae, sat angustae. 



Male. Allied to the Nocluites. Body moderately stout, rather 

 long. Proboscis long. Palpi stout, ascending, rather long ; second 

 joint very much longer than the first ; third small, conical. An- 

 tennae slightly pectinated, three-fourths of the length of the body. 

 Abdomen extending for one-third of its length beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs rather stout; femora towards the base and coxae 

 hairy; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. Wings rather 

 long and narrow. Fore wings with the first inferior vein nearly 

 contiguous to the second at the base ; third full twice further from 

 the fourth than from the second. 



1. Onythes pallidicosta. 



Mas. Fuscus ; caput et pectus fulva ; palpi nigro-fusci ; antenna: 

 nigra; thorax fulvo univittatus ; abdomen maculis lateralibus 

 ventreque luteis ; femora basi subtus c ox aque fulva ; tarsorum 

 articuli apice albidi ; alee anticce apud cos tarn fulvce. 



