80 ME. F. WALKER ON HETEROCEROUS LEPIDOPTEKA 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, stout. Palpi brown, excepting the 3rd 

 joint, which is extremely minute. Antennae setulose, pubescent. Legs 

 stout, thickly pilose. Wings brown-speckled, with a broad brownish 

 marginal space ; marginal points black. Fore wings with the reni- 

 form mark and four zigzag lines brown, indistinct ; 5th line pale, very 

 slightly curved, much abbreviated at each end. Hind wings with two 

 indistinct straight lines ; interior border thickly fringed. Length of 

 the body 7 lines; of the wings 17 hues. 



346. ToxocAMPA ? NiGRiPALPis, n. s. Mas. PaUide cinereo-cervina, 

 fasciculo frontali producto, palpis nigris, abdomine alas posticas super- 

 ante cristis duabus nigris, alis anticis nigro subconspersis vix falcatis, 

 linea exteriore pallida marginata subundulata, linea submarginali punc- 

 tulari maculisque duabus posticis nigris, alis posticis fuscescenti- 

 cinereis. 

 Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour, hardly stout. Frontal tuft porrect, 

 very prominent. Palpi black, obliquely ascending ; 3rd joint pale, 

 somewhat truncated, not one-sixth of the length of the 2nd. An- 

 tennae serrated, pubescent. Abdomen attenuated, extending beyond 

 the hind wings, with two small black-tipped crests near the base. 

 Legs smooth. Wings with black marginal lunules. Fore wings thinly 

 black-speckled, slightly lilac-tinged, hardly falcate ; exterior line pale, 

 dfirk-bordered, slightly undulating, nearly upright, contiguous to a 

 black spot on the interior border ; a larger black spot near the base 

 of the interior border ; submarginal line indicated by black points. 

 Hind wings brownish cinereous, with a straight nearly obsolete brown 

 line, which is black and distinct by the interior angle. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 15 Hnes. 

 The three preceding species hardly belong to Toxocampa, but form a 



transition from it to the two following genera, in which the characters of 



Toxocampa are still more altered. 



Gren. Sabthida, n. g. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis conspicua. Palpi ascendentes, 

 subarcuati, verticem vix superantes ; articulus 2"' latissimus ; 3"^ gra- 

 cillimus, apice incisus, 2' dimidio brevior. Antcnnw longfe, subpec- 

 tiuata;. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae i)osticse calcaribus quatuor longis. 

 Alee anticaj apice rectangulatse, costa recta, margine exteriore sub- 

 obliquo vix convexo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis distinct. Palpi ascending, slightly curved, 

 hardly rising higher than the vertex; 2nd joint very broad; 3rd 

 very slender, notched near the tip, not half the length of the 2nd. 

 Antennae long, slightly pectinated ; branches pubescent. Legs stout ; 

 femora and tibiae pilose; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 moderately broad. Fore wings rectangular at the tips ; costa straiglit ; 

 exterior border hardly convex, slightly oblique. 



