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Genus PANTURA. 



]\Iale. Forewing loug, narrow, exterior margin slightly convex ; cell extending 

 to half the length, narrow ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end and joined by a short spur to third near its 

 base ; discocellular concave in the middle, bent outward close to ends, radials from 

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

 recurved : hindwing short, rather narrow, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; 

 cell two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular very concave, 

 radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout, frontal tuft conical ; 

 abdomen smooth ; palpi curved upwards, second joint fusiform, compressed, extending 

 half its length beyond the head, smoothly squamous ; third joint lanceolate, acute at 

 the tip, of the same length as second ; antennse serrated, ciliated ; legs stout, femora 

 fringed beneath, tibias incrassated, compactly pilose, spurs long. 



Type, P. ophiusoides. 



PANTTIRA OPHIUSALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 4). 

 Bocana ophiusalis, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. B, M. xvi. p. 173 (1858). 



Male and female. Purplish ferruginous-brown : forewing speckled with minute 

 cinereous scales ; crossed by two outwardly-oblique antemedial and a medial indis- 

 tinct undulated darker brown line, an erect postmedial and two outer similar lines, 

 each line bent inward near the costal end, tbe inner and three outer lines with a pale 

 border, and between the costal ends of the two outer lines is a dark brown sub- 

 quadrate patch ; a white orbicular dot and a black broken reniform streak '■ 

 hindwing with a dusky brown marginal border; cilia paler. Thorax and base of 

 abdomen cinereous brown ; collar, head, palpi, and bands on tarsi dark brown. 



Expanse Ij to 1^ inch. 



Genus LABANDA. 

 Lahanda, Walker, Catal Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 284 (1859). 

 Forewing elongated, narrow, obtusely pointed at the apex, exterior margin rather 

 oblique, slightly convex ; cell extending beyond half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end of 

 cell and slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular concave, radials from 

 upper end and at a slight angle close to lower end ; middle median from angle close 

 to end of cell, lower at two-fifths; submedian slightly curved: hiudwino- short 

 exterior margin very oblique, convex ; cell more than half the length ; two subcostals 

 from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, very concave, radial from anole 



