PSEUDO-DELTOIDS. l8l 



REMIGIA DEMONSTRANS. 



(Plate CXL., Fig. 3.) 



Rcmigia demonstrans, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. 1512, no. 26 (1858). 



This species is found in the Navigators' Islands. " Cinereous- 

 testaceous. Head and fore part of the thorax somewhat 

 fawn-coloured. Hind tarsi not pilose. Fore-wings speckled 

 with brown, with two diffuse slightly-oblique dark brown bands, 

 the first bounded on the inner side by a straight whitish line, 

 and on the outer side by an undulating black line, the second 

 containing an undulating black line ; a row of exterior black 

 dots ; exterior border brown. ' Hind-wings with three brown 

 bands, the second and third connected in front ; exterior border 

 and cilia partly brown. Length of the body, eight to nine lines ; 

 of the wings, eighteen to twenty lines " ( Walker). 



VIII. NOCTtME PSEUDO-DELTOIDS. 



This Family forms the transition from the preceding families 

 to the Deltoids. The moths have rather slender bodies, the 

 antennae are often ciliated, and the palpi are long, ascending 

 and recurved, with the third joint long and linear. The wings 

 are broad, and often more or less angulated ; and the fore- and 

 hind-wings are generally similarly marked above, and are also 

 ornamented with distinct markings on the under surface. They 

 are very numerous in the Tropics, and especially in South 

 America, but there is only one European species, Zethes 

 insularis, Rambur, which was first discovered in Corsica. 



Guenee defines three families, as follows : 



A. Wings more or less angulated. 



a. Last joint of the palpi long, filiform, and upcurved. 

 Abdomen above hairy ... Fotillida. 



