376 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



Petovia, Walker, (PL VIII. fig. 7.) 



350. Petovia dichroaria = Geometra dicliroaria, Herricli- 



Sch. Lep. Exot. fig. 189. ^aZ».— Natal, Cape. 

 Confounded by Walker with the following, of which he 

 regarded it as the female. 



351. Petovia marginata, Wlk. Lep. Hot. 2, p. 560. Hab. 



— Interior of South Africa. 



Pteroodes, nov. gen. (PI. VIII. fig. 20.) 



Wings long and oval, the costal nervure of primaries 

 terminating at second third of costal margin ; the sub- 

 costal five-branched, the first two branches thrown off 

 before the end of the cell, the third and fourth emitted 

 fi:om a long footstalk, below and near the base of which 

 the fifth branch (answering to the upper radial) is emitted, 

 discocellular arched inwards ; lower radial and last two 

 branches emitted almost from the same point at the in- 

 ferior extremity of the cell ; subcostal of secondaries three- 

 branched, the first branch emitted before the end of the 

 cell, the others from the same point at its superior 

 extremity; discocellular in-arched, a false radial with 

 recurrent continuation passing through its centre to the 

 base of the cell ; true radial emitted near the second and 

 third medians as in primaries ; body moderately slender 

 and extending considerably beyond the secondaries; palpi 

 long and porrect ; legs long and rather slender, hind tibige 

 with a short thick spine before their proximal extremity, 

 and two still shorter at their extremity. Type, P. longi- 

 pennis, 



352. Pteroodes longipennis = Lithosia longipennis, Wlk. 



Lep. Het. 2, p. 510. ^a5.— Mexico. 

 This singular species has much the form of the Rhopa- 

 locerous genus Heliconius ; it forms an excellent transition 

 to the next family — Hypsidce^ 



Supplementary Species. 



353. PaUene gracilis, n. sp. Hab. — Sydney (Two speci* 



mens). 

 Primaries white, crossed just before the middle by a 

 black p^ -shaped band, slightly irregular and with its inner 

 fork much more slender than the outer one ; two black 



