190 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS MASTIGOPHORUS. 



Mastigophorus, Poey, Cent. Lepid. pi. 8 (1832). 

 Mastygophora, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Le"pid. Belt, et Pyr. p. 93 

 (1854); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 149 



This genus is remarkable for the enormous length of the 

 palpi in the male, which are composed of three joints, each as 

 long as the abdomen. The first joint is straight, the second 

 and third recurved over the back, and the last joint is fringed 

 with long hair beneath ; there is a conspicuous tuft at the end 

 of the front tibiae. The median nervure is four-branched on 

 both the fore- and hind- wings, and there is one sub- median 

 nervure on the fore-wings, and two on the hind-wings. In 

 the female, the palpi are much shorter, and resemble those of 

 the genus Herminia, Latreille ; the second joint is the longest, 

 and the third is slightly recurved. The tuft at the end of the 

 tibiae is wanting. 



MASTIGOPHORUS PARRA 



(Plate CXLV., Fig. 7.) 



Mastigophorus parra, Poey, Cent. Lepid. Cuba, pi. 8 (1832). 

 Mastygophora parralis, Guenee, Spec. Ge"n. Le"pid. Delt. et 

 Pyr. p. 94 (1854) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 xvi. p. 149, no. i (1858). 



This species is a native of Cuba. It expands about an inch. 



It is dark brown, with four yellowish lines ; the first short, 

 the second curved, bordered with black outside, and followed 

 by a yellowish dash at the end of the cell ; beyond this are 

 two more much angulated lines, which, unlike the others, are 

 continued across the hind-wings, where, however, they are 

 nearly straight, the sub-terminal line only being angulated at 

 the anal angle. The under surface of the wings is dusted 



