IIERMINIID^. 213 



ILYRGIS ECHEPHUREALIS. 



Ihirgis Echcphui-calis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 880 (1859). 



Male. Pale brownish-cinereous : forewing crossed by an antemedial and a post- 

 medial outwardly-recurved indistinct whitish-bordered brown denticulated line, and 

 a straighter submarginal similar line, the lines being slightly dilated and whitish at 

 the costal euds ; marginal luuules brown ; orbicular and reniform mark indistinct, 

 pale brown : hindwing with a curved discal and submarginal similar line, and marginal 

 brown lunular line. Front of thorax and head white ; tip of palpi, and tarsi, with 

 whitish bauds ; hind borders of abdominal segments whitish. 



Expanse -ro inch. 



Genus BOCANA. 



Lusia* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het, B. M. xiii. p. 1113 (1857), $. 

 Bocana, Walker, id. xvi. p. 170 (1858), 9. 

 Laimira, Walker, id. xvi. p. 189 (1858), $ . 

 Bithiasa, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 1116 (I860). 



Forewing elongated, moderately broad ; exterior margin slightly oblique and 

 convex ; cell extending half the length ; first subcostal emitted at nearly three-fifths 

 before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and joined 

 by a short spur to third near its base ; discocellular concave, bent at each end, 

 radials from the angles ; middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at two- 

 fifths ; submedian much curved from the base : hindwing broad, rather short ; 

 exterior margin convex; cell one-third the length; two subcostals on a footstalk 

 one-sixth beyond end of the cell ; discocellular slender, concave, radial from near 

 lower end ; two upper medians on a footstalk one-sixth beyond end of the cell ; 

 lower one-third before the end; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately slender; head and thorax, and abdomen at the sides, pilose, tip tufted in 

 male ; palpi ascending, long, compressed, second joint fusiform, broadly pilose in 

 front, rising to the vertex, third joint lanceolate, slightly curved, two-thirds the 

 length of second ; antennaa bipectiuated to tip in male, setulose in the female ; legs 

 compactly pilose, spurs long. 



Type, B. manifestalis. 



BOCANA MANIFESTALIS. 



Bocarm manifestalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 171 (1858), ? . 

 Lamura oherralalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 189 (1858), (^. 



Male and female. Ferruginous greyish-brown : forewing with a transverse 

 indistinct black outwardly-oblique undulated antemedial line, an inwardlv-recurved 



* Previou--ly used by M. Edwards for a genus of Polypi. 



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