LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
939 
Asopia? Vicinalis. 
Lutea ; alee lineis rufis, fascia lata nigra luteo guttata . 
Phalaena-Pyralis vicinalis. Cram. Pap. Exot . iv. 164, pi. 372, f. G. 
Surinam. 
Poem. Albida , gracilis, fusco notata ; palpi albi, graciles, ar- 
cuati, ascendentes, apice fusci , articulo 3 o parvo conico ; 
antennee sat validce ; abdomen ochraceum , alas posticas sat 
superans , segmentis albo marginatis , apice fusco ; alee flavee, 
iridescentes , latiusculce, lineis interiore et exteriore purpuras - 
cente-fuscis undulatis , plaga apicali purpurascente ; anticce 
vix acutce , /msco notatce , plagis apud marginem interiorem 
duabus purpurascentibus , /inea exteriore valde flexa , mii- 
formi oblonga subquadrat a vacua. 
Female. Whitish, slender, pure white beneath. Head and 
thorax marked with brown. Palpi white, slender, curved, ascending, 
brown towards the tips, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 
minute, conical. Antennae rather stout. Abdomen ochraceous, 
extending rather beyond the hind wings; hind borders of the seg- 
ments white; tip dark brown. Wings yellow, iridescent, rather 
broad ; interior and exterior lines purplish brown, undulating ; a 
purplish apical patch. Fore wings hardly acute, marked with 
brown towards the base of the costa ; two purplish patches on the 
interior border ; exterior line much bent; reniform mark represented 
by an oblong subquadrate ringlet. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 
the wings 10 lines. 
Resembles A. latimarginalis in structure. 
a. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 
Pallide ochracea ; palpi porrecti; articulus 3 us lanceolatus , 2 o 
vix brevior ; antennee submoniliformes , corpore vix breviores ; 
alee lineis nigricantibus denticulatis, linea exteriore flexa, 
fimbria alba ; anticce subfalcatce, reniformi parva nigricante. 
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Asopia Critheisalis. 
Asopia? Niobesalis. 
