350 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



in the male, the veins being in this sex bordered with 

 pale cupreous-brown ; body greyish or whitish brown, 

 slightly redder in the female ; abdomen sericeous ; 

 under surface whitish ash-colour, minutely and sparsely 

 irrorated with blackish scales, a broad l)rown discal belt 

 bounded by slightly darker lines and traversed by a 

 sinuated whitish line, its inner edge straight and its 

 outer edge dentate-sinuate ; primaries with an indistinct 

 dusk}' litura ujjon the disco-cellulars ; secondaries with a 

 black spot crossed by white veins at the end of the cell ; 

 legs and antennse whitj^-brown. Expanse of wings, 

 3" 44 mm. ; ? 48 mm. 



" Pines Valley, in December." — T. E. 



The simple antennae and ovate secondaries prevent my 

 placing this species in Metrocampa. 



Sabulodes, Guenee. 



16. Sabulodes infelix, n. s. 



Fuliginous-brown ; wings sericeous, with slightly 

 darker external area ; irrorated with darker scales, and 

 traversed towards the outer border by an ill-detined 

 whitish-speckled dusky stripe ; primaries with a second, 

 even less distinct, stripe across the basal third, and a 

 black dot at the end of the cell ; abdomen slightly paler 

 and greyer than the thorax ; under surface ash-grey, the 

 wings slightly brownish and irrorated with darker scales ; 

 traversed towards the external border by an irregularly 

 crinkled dusky line ; secondaries with a lilack dot at the 

 end of the cell ; abdominal border whitish ; antennae 

 below clay-coloured, tibiae and tarsi slightly brownish. 

 Expanse of wings, 42 mm. 



" Las Zorras, in December." — T. E. 



Paragonia, Eelder. 



The female only is figured by Eelder and Eogenhofer ; 

 in this sex the angle of the primaries is developed into a 

 well-defined but obtuse hook, as in the " Ch/sia" 

 succedetts of Walker ; the entire form being an exag- 

 geration of Ennomos ; the male, however, has the form 

 of Tetrads, but with strongly pectinated antennae, as in 

 Endropia. 



Whether the six following forms are species or only 

 well-defined varieties can only be absolutely proved by 



