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lanceolate, slender, ascending obliquely upward, half length of the second ; antennfe 

 slender, simple ; legs smooth, spurs long. 



LUCERIA NOVATUSALIS. 



Luceria novatusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. ITet. B. M. xix. p. 854 (1859). 



Testaceous-yellow : forewing slightly and minutely speckled with brown scales, 

 most so along the exterior border ; a black basal dot and a prominent black white- 

 pointed spot at end of the cell, the latter near the inner side of a sHght straight 

 inwardly-oblique blackish hue ; a marginal row of black points : hindwing whitish- 

 cinereous, with a slender brown marginal line. Second joint of palpi brown on its 

 outer side, third joint with a dark brown band; forelegs dark brown, with pale 

 bands. 



Expanse to inch. 



Genus RIVULA. 



Eivula, Guenee, Duponcliel's Catal. Lop. Eur. p. 206 (1846); Delt. et Pyral. p. 47 (1854); Walker, 



Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 92. 

 Evergestis (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 354. 

 Margarilla (part), Stephens, Illust. B. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 58 (1834). 



Wings small : forewing elongated, somewhat triangular, exterior margin obliquely 

 convex ; cell extending three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-third 

 before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, third from end of the cell, trifid ; disco- 

 cellular concave, radials from near the ends ; middle median from close to end of 

 the cell, lower at one-third : hindwing short, exterior margin oblique, convex in the 

 middle ; cell one-half the length ; two subcostals from a short distance beyond end 

 of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians 

 on a footstalk nearly half beyond end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end. 

 Body rather slender ; palpi short, stout, porrect, compressed, pilose, third joint 

 minute, conical ; antenuEe slender, minutely ciliated with very fine short lashes in 

 male ; legs long, laxly squamose, spurs long. 



Type, R. sericealis. 



RIVULA BIOCULALIS. 



Eivula bioculalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1877, p. 614. 



Pale ochreous-yellow : forewing with five outwardly-oblique transverse short 

 white streaks on the costa, a row of white-tipt black dots on the exterior margin, 

 two superposed white-bordered black dots at end of the cell, and a transverse discal 

 and a submarginal curved wavy white-bordered brown line : hindwing paler, 

 brownish-ochreous along exterior border. Underside paler : forewing brownish in 

 the middle. 



Expanse a inch. 



