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MR. E. WALKER ON HETEROCEROUS LEPIDOPTERA 



macula guttisque duabus nigris, thorace maculis tribus anticis nigris, 

 abdomine e maculis nigris bivittato, alis sublineatis, anticis basi nigro 

 guttatis. 



Male. Very pale fawn-colour. Head with a black spot above, and 

 with a black dot at the base of each antenna. Palpi black at the 

 base. Thorax with three black dots in front. Abdomen with two 

 rows of black spots, luteous and densely ferruginous towards the tip. 

 Wings with several pale indistinct oblique undulating lines. Fore 

 wings with some black dots at the base and along the basal half of 

 the costa ; exterior border with some brownish dots. Length of the 

 body 10 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



Gen. Saliocleta, n. g. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi porrecti, breves, 

 graciles, caput non superantes. Antennce glabra?, longiusculae, sat 

 graciles. Abdomen conicum, alas posticas paullo superans, apicem 

 versus subcompressum. Pedes breves, pilosi ; tibiae posticae quadri- 

 calcaratae. Aim longse ; anticae acutae. 



Male. Body thick. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, short, slender, 

 not extending beyond the head; 3rd joint very minute. Antenna? 

 smooth, rather long and slender. Abdomen conical, extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings, slightly compressed towards the tip, which is 

 subquadrate. Legs short, moderately stout ; femora and tibia) clothed 

 with long hairs ; hind tibiae with four stout approximate moderately 

 long spurs. Wings long, moderately broad. Fore wings acute ; costa 

 and exterior border straight, the latter extremely oblique ; veins in 

 structure much like those of Spilosoma. Hind wings with the ex- 

 terior border convex. 



Allied to Zana. 



139. Saliocleta nonagrioides, n. s. Mas. Pallide lignicolor, alis 

 anticis strigis difFusis pallide rufesccntibus, posticis pallide rufes- 

 centibus. 



MaU. Pale wood-colour. Fore wings diffusedly streaked with pale didl 

 reddish. Hind wings pale reddish, except along the costa. Length of 

 the body 11 lines; of the wings 26 lines. 



Fam. L1PAKID.ZE, Steph. 

 Gten, O&GtxiA, Oc//x. 



110. OrOYIA NIOHOCROCEA, H. I. Mas. Ochracca, abdomine absque 

 posticis DigrO-fusciSj alis anticis fascia latissirria nigro-fusca antice 

 abbrcviata. 



Male. Ocbraceous, Abdomen and hind wings blackish brown. Fore 

 wingf with a very broad minutely speckled blackish-brown band, which 

 txtcud* to the exterior border uindward, und is diil'u*u and abbrc- 



