254 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS HEDYLE. 



Hedyle, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran, et Phal. ii. p- 521 

 (1857) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 1463 

 (1862). 

 These Moths slightly resemble Butterflies of the subfamily 



Jthomiifice. 



HEDYLE LUCIVITTATA. 

 {Plate CLL, Fig. 5.) 

 Hedyle lucivittata. Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 

 p. 1745 (1862) 



This species was found by the late H. W. Bates at Ega on the 

 Upper Amazons. 



"Cinereous brown, whitish cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; third 

 joint conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 minutely setulose. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the 

 hind-wings. Wings elongate, ample, with a white, broad, discal 

 stripe ; under side mostly speckled with cinereous brown, 

 Fore-wings acute, with a large white sub-apical spot ; exterior 

 border bent in front, concave towards the costa, straight and 

 very oblique hindward. Length of the body, ten lines ; of the 

 wings, twenty-eight lines " ( IVa/ker). 



FAMILY ERATINID.F:. 



Antennae short, slightly pubescent in the male, and simple 

 in the female. Palpi slender, ascending, pointed. Proboscis 

 well-developed. Body rather stout, not extending to the anal 

 angle of the hind-wings. Legs rather short, not swollen ; hind 

 tibiie with two pairs of spurs. Wings entire ; fore-wings trian- 

 gular, adorned with bright colours; hind-wings long, narrow, 

 and often produced into a long tail. 



