LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 753 



coxae and femora red. Fore wings with a red tinge, and with an 

 oblique middle band of black dots; costa bright red, white behind. 

 Hind wings bright red. Length of the body 5—7 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 — 22 lines. 



a, b. Brazil. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 c. ? 



Genus 62. OVIOS. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis capitis latitudine multo longior. 

 Palpi pilosi, porrecti, longiusculi ; articulus 2us lo longior; 3us 

 conicus, parvus. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes 

 pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longissimis. Alae latae. 

 Mas. — Antennae subpectinatae. Poem. — Antennae graciles, sim- 

 plices. 



Allied to Erastria and to other Noctuites. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis much longer than the breadth 

 of the head. Palpi hairy, porrect, rather long ; second joint longer 

 than the first ; third conical, small. Abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs hairy ; hind tibiae with four very long 

 spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings with the second inferior vein as 

 near to the third as to the first ; third about four times further from 

 the fourth than from the second. Hind wings with the costal vein 

 springing from near the base of the wing. Male. — Antennae 

 slightly pectinated. Female. — Antennae slender, simple. 



1. Ovios CAPENSIS. 



Mas et foem. Alba, subtus lutea ; caput nigro trifasciatum ; 

 palpi nigri, albo fasciati, subtus lutei ; antenna nigrce ; tho- 

 rax luteo quadrimaculatus, nigro bifasciatus ; abdomen ma- 

 culis dorsalibus nigris ; pedes lutei, tarsis nigris albo fasciatis ; 

 alee anticce testacece, marginibus nigris albo conspersis albo et 

 ex parte rufo limbatis, disco apicem versus viridescente, macula 

 nigra discali albo marginata, maculis tribus subcostalibus 

 unaque postica marginali rufis ; posticce testacece, macula 

 arcuata discali fasciaque maculari submarginali nigris. 



Eudryas? capensis, Her r.-S chaff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. 1, f. 115, 



116. 



Male and fern. Head and thorax white above, luteous beneath. 

 Head with two black bands in front of the antennae and one 



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