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GENUS ERATINA. 

 Erateiua, Doubleday, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. iii (1848) ; 

 Saunders, op. cit. {2), v. p. 262 (i860) ; Guenee, Spec. Gen. 

 Lepid. Uran, et Phal. ii. p. 525 (1857) ; Walker, List 

 Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 1466 (1862). 

 This genus is easily recognisable by the long, narrow, sub- 

 caudate or caudate wings, which give the Moths a curious resem- 

 blance to some of the tailed Lemoniidce. 



ERATINA LEPTOCIRCATA. 

 {Plate CLL, Fig. 6.) 

 Erateina leptocircata, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. 

 ii. p. 526 (1857); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 xxv. p. 1467, no. I (1862). 

 This Moth is a native of New Grenada. It expands about 

 an inch and a half. 



The wings are black, with the base cupreous ; the fore- 

 wings have a yellow transverse band extending from the middle 

 of the costa nearly to the hinder angle ; the hind-wings have a 

 longitudinal band, narrow at first, and sulphur-yellow, but 

 expanding, and shading into red. The hind-wings are produced 

 into a linear tail as long as the wing. At the base of the tail 

 are two black spots on the inner margin ; the fringes are yellow. 



FAMILY MELANCHRCEID^. 

 Antennae strongly pectinated in the male; palpi short, 

 hairy. Legs slender ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 entire, black, with white markings. Body generally more or 

 less clothed with reddish hair, especially beneath. Costal 

 nervure free on all the wings. The larvae are Loopers. 



GENUS MELANCHRCEA. 



Melanchroia, Hiibner, Verz. bck Schmett. p. 173 (181S?); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins^ Brit. Mus. ii. p. 3S7 (1854). 



