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crossed by an inwardly-oblique medial prominent wbitisli line, wliicli ends below the 

 costa ; followed by a less distinct waved discal line : hindwing paler, and of a duller 

 brown colour ; with a very indistinct pale discal waved line. Cilia broad, with pale 

 inner line. Body chestnut-brown ; palpi fuliginous-brown. 

 Expanse, c? ttt, ? trr inch. 



Genus HERGULIA. 

 Herculia, Walker, CataL Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 807 (1859). 



Forewing comparatively shorter, broader, and more triangular in form than in 

 Stemmatophora ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth 

 before end of the cell, second free, third from the end of the cell, trifid ; discocellular 

 deeply concave, upper radial from end of the cell in a line with subcostal, lower 

 radial and upper median on a footstalk beyond the cell, middle median from close to 

 end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian recurved : hindwing broad, trian- 

 gular, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique, convex ; cell about one-third 

 the length, at its upper end and fully half the length at its lower end ; discocellular 

 deeply concave anteriorly, its lower end very long and oblique ; two subcostals from 

 immediately beyond the cell and free from the costal ; radial and upper median from 

 extended lower end of the cell, middle median close to the end, lower at one-third ; 

 a straight submedian and two internal veins. Body robust ; frontal tuft flat and 

 projected ; abdomen tufted at the apex ; labial palpi recurved, obliquely ascending, 

 porrect at the tip and forming a snout in front, laxly squamous beneath, second joint 

 broad at the end, third joint narrow, pointed, very short; maxillary palpi short, 

 slender ; antenna3 finely bipectinated in male, simple in female ; legs moderately 

 short, tibige slightly pilose, spurs short. 



Tii])e, H. bractealis. 



HEECULIA BRACTEALIS. 



Herculia bractealis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 808 (1859), q . 



Deep red, with a glaucescent tinge. Wings slightly speckled with minute black 

 scales ; crossed by an antemedial and a postmedial rather broad black- speckled line ; 

 both lines more approximate on the hindwing : forewing with an indistinct black- 

 speckled spot at end of the cell, and in the male the middle area between the lines is 

 more densely black speckled; some yellow points on middle of the costa. Cilia 

 golden-yellow. Middle tarsi yellow ; hindlegs yellow, with red bands. 



Expanse, c? tk, 9 Ito inch. 



HERCULIA IGNIFLTJALIS. 



Pyralis ignijlualls, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 268 (1859). 



Female. Olivaceous-red : forewing darker red along the costal border and 

 exterior margin ; crossed by an antemedial and postmedial wavy very indistinct pale 



