82- Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



red ; pectus brownish white ; anterior legs dark brown, 

 middle legs purplish ; hind legs pale golden yellowish, 

 banded with rose-red ; venter golden yellow. Expanse 

 of wings, 24 mm. 



" Corral, in March."— T. E. 



Paljephatus, n. g. 



Almost exactly the form of " Macliimia , iincinella" of 

 Zeller, but the primaries slightly more falcate, with the 

 external angle a little more prominent ; secondaries with 

 the discoidal cell long and narrow ; the costal and sub- 

 costal veins widely separated to admit a large basal 

 oblong glandular swelling upon the under surface and a 

 corresponding pencil of hairs (somewhat as in Tricho- 

 stibas, Zeller) on the upper surface ; the subcostal 

 branches and the radial vein are thus crowded together, 

 and the wing is longitudinally folded immediately below 

 the subcostal ; the median vein emits its first branch 

 before the middle, and therefore at a considerable distance 

 from the second ; the second and third are quite distinct ; 

 the body is comparatively short for the group, barely 

 exceeding the secondaries ; the head broad, coarsely 

 scaled, the antennae thick, rather short, tapering, cylin- 

 drical, but slightly flattened in front, which causes them 

 to curl inwards when dry ; palpi thick, moderately long, 

 widely separated ; the second joint slightly deflexed, 

 about as long as the head ; third joint rather more than 

 half the length of the second, slightly ascending. 



66. Palcephatm falsus, n. s. (PI. XL, fig. 11). 



Aspect and style of coloration of Cerostoma, though 

 wholly different in structure ; primaries above shining 

 golden stramineous, transversely striated with little 

 brown dashes ; costa spotted with brown, and beyond the 

 middle with white ; fringe traversed by an imperfect 

 brown stripe, and spotted externally with white ; an 

 abbreviated oblique brown stripe before the middle of the 

 wing, and a reversed oblique brown dash towards apex ; 

 secondaries shining leaden grey, paler towards the base ; 

 fringe broadly tipped with white ; body cream-coloured ; 

 primaries below golden brown ; secondaries bronzy grey, 

 borders and fringes as above ; body below cream- 



