PLATYDIDyE. 215 



t^yo subcostals from end of tlie cell ; discocellular concave, radial from close to lower 

 end ; two upper medians from en<l of cell, lower fi-om about one-third ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout ; palpi ascending, second joint in the male 

 very long, slender, much curved, extending to vertex, compactly squamose, third 

 joint also long, slender, tufted in the middle, twisted and sometimes being bent over 

 in front ; second joint in female less curved, third joint about two-thirds its length, 

 clavate ; antennte very minutely ciliated; legs densely pilose; spurs stout. 

 T}jpc, A. hepatizans. 



AMPHIGONIA HEPATIZANS (Plate 173, Fig. 4). 

 Amphlgonia hepatizans, Guunee, Noct. iii. p. 338, pi. 24, fig. 12 (lSo2); Walker, Catal. Lop. Hot. 

 B. M. XV. p. 1541. 



Greyish purple-brown, the base and exterior borders paler : forewiug with the 

 basal area very sparsely speckled Avith pale whitish-tipt scales ; crossed by a sub- 

 basal, antemedial, medial, and a discal zigzag darker-brown line, each line bordered 

 with pale speckles at the costal end, followed by a submarginal darker purple-brown 

 fascia, the fascia being acutely angled on its outer edge below the apex and at the 

 middle median vein, and bordered externally by grey and a zigzag purple-brown 

 whitish-speckled bordered sinuous fascia, the curved interspace between the angles 

 also traversed by a parallel slender olivaceous line ; at the extreme apex is also a 

 dark purple-brown patch, and the veins crossing the exterior border are speckled 

 with whitish scales ; an indistinct ochreous-brown reniform mark : hindwing crossed 

 by a medial and a discal zigzag darker brown line ; the apex and anal area clouded 

 wdth purple-brown. Body, palpi, and legs sparsely speckled with minute pale 

 whitish-tipt scales ; tarsi, and tip of palpi ochreous. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Family PLATYDIDJE. 



Wings ample, extended ; alike in colour and markings ; exterior margin always 

 angular or bent, antennae ciliated or pubescent ; legs long, slender, fore tibias more 

 or less thickened ; palpi long, much ascending, extending above the head. 



Genus CLATERNA. 

 Trifjoniu* Guenee, Deltoides et Pyral. p. 11 (18o2) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 3. 

 Brotis (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 303. 

 Claterna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1543 (1858). 



Forewing elongated, narrow, costa almost straight, exterior margin angulated 

 at the end of upper median vein, convex below the angle, posterior margin short ; 

 cell more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at more than half before end 



Previously used by Geyer (Ilubu. Zutr. V. p. 21), 1837, for a genus of Lepldoptera. 



