HETEROCEROUS LEPIDOPTERA. 99 



Female. Testaceous, whitish testaceous beneath. Palpi very 

 short and slender, not extending beyond the head. Antennae thick. 

 Abdomen shorter than the interior border of the hind wings. Wings 

 brown-speckled ; a brown straight line double in the hind wings, and 

 extending from four-fifths of the length of the interior border of the 

 latter to the tip of the fore wings, and emitting a recurrent branch to 

 the costa ; a fawn-coloured tinge on the outer side of this line on the 

 fore wings and on the inner side in the hind wings ; a black point in 

 the disk ; a submarginal zigzag very slender brown line ; under side 

 without markings except the two lines, of which the first is in- 

 complete. Fore wings acute, with a brown deeply angular ante- 

 medial line ; exterior border almost straight. Hind wings with a 

 brown streak along the hind half of the exterior border, which forms 

 an acute and very prominent angle in the middle. Length of the 

 body 5 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



MAOARTA POSTICARTA. Mas. Albida ; capite palpisque cervinis ; 

 palpis porrectis, caput sat superantibus, articulo 2o lato, 3o lineari 

 tti dimidio breviore; auteimis subtilissirne serratis ; abdomine alas 

 posticas non superaute, fasciculo apicali longo subcompresso ; alis 

 lusco conspersis, macula discoidali antemedia, fascia postmedia in- 

 forrni obliqua tenui lineaque guttulari fuscis ; alis anticis acutis, 

 margine exteriore fere recto sat obliquo ; alis posticis margiue 

 exteriore augulato. 



Male. Whitish, slender. Head and palpi fawn-colour. Palpi 

 smooth, porrect, extending rather beyond the head ; second joint 

 broad ; third linear, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 extremely minutely serrated. Abdomen a little shorter than the 

 interior border of the hind wings ; apical tuft elongated, slightly 

 compressed. Wings transversely and minutely brown-speckled, with 

 a brown antemedial^spot in the disk, and with a postmedial irregular 

 oblique slender brown band which is accompanied by dots along its 

 inner side ; a submarginal line of brown dots, which are largest in 

 the hind wings ; markings more distinct beneath than above. Fore 

 wings acute ; exterior border almost straight, rather oblique. Hind 

 wings with the exterior border distinctly angular in the middle.. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



MAC ART A SOLTTARIA. Mas. Sordide albida ; palpis latis caput sat 

 superautibus, articulo 3o conico ; antennis subtilissime pubescenti- 

 bus ; alis longis fusco conspersis, linea postmedia fusca obliqua 

 angulosa indeterminata, puncto discoidali punctisque marginalibus 

 nigris, margine exteriore angulato ; alis anticis acutis, fascia sub- 

 niarginali cervina ; alis posticis linea submarginali fusca tenui inde- 

 terminata fuscescente. plaga Bubapicali cervina. 



