LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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short, rather stout, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint 
extremely short. Thorax with reddish marks. Antennae short, pu- 
bescent. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 
Legs stout ; spurs long, unequal. Wings rather short and broad, 
glaucous tinged. Fore wings acute, with a very broad brown middle 
band, whose borders are undulating, the outer side bounded by a pale 
line, which joins a yellowish costal patch ; rest of the marginal space 
reddish, black speckled ; marginal dots black ; exterior border very 
oblique ; costa contracted in the middle part. Hind wings like the 
fore wings in colour, but with the band comparatively narrow. 
Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
Var. p. Male . Wings mostly rosy red, black speckled ; band 
black-bordered, narrower in the fore wings and broader in the hind 
wings than in var. a. 
Sarawak, Borneo. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
Pyralis Aonisalis. 
Mas. Cervina , valida , squamis chdybceis micantibus ; palpi as - 
cendentes , breves , lati , nigricantes ; antennae robustce ; abdomen, 
alas posticas super ans ; alee albidae , basi cervinae nigro squa- 
mosce Jinea exleriore nigra valde undulata , spatio marginali 
cervino nebulis nigris , linea marginali nigra ; anticce acuta , 
guttis duabus discalibus nigris spatio pallide fusco inclusis ; 
posticce litura discali e squamis nigris. Var. p . — Aloe spatio 
marginali nigro ; anticce guttis discalibus connexis. 
Male. Fawn-colour, moderately stout, whitish beneath. Body 
and dark parts of the wings adorned with chalybeous glittering 
scales. Palpi short, broad, ascending, mostly blackish ; third joint 
obtuse, very short. Antennae stout. Pectus pure white in front. 
Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, 
slender. Wings whitish, moderately broad, fawn-colour, and with 
black scales at the base ; marginal space fawn-colour, here and there 
shaded with black, irregularly bordered by a black incomplete very 
undulating line ; marginal line black, incomplete ; fringe broad. 
Fore wings acute ; two black discal dots, the surrounding space 
clouded with pale brown. Hind wings with a little discal cluster of 
black scales. Var. p. — Wings with the marginal space mostly black. 
Fore wings with the discal dots connected. Length of the body 5 
lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
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