102 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of nn described Lepidoptera 



and is connected with a costal mark by a little streak on the inner 

 side; sub-marginal line black, slender, zigzag; marginal points 

 black; costa and exterior border hardly convex ; interior angle 

 well defined. Hind-wings brownish along the exterior border; 

 marginal points blackish, larger than those of the fore-wings ; 

 underside with a blackish discal point, and a blackish curved ex- 

 terior line. 



Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus Baniana. 



Baniana, Cat. Lep. Het. 3rd Ser. 1843. 



Sect. 2. 



Mas. — Corpus sat gracile. Fasciculus frontalis productus. 

 Proboscis distincta. Palpi oblique ascendentes, frontem 

 non superantes, articulo So minimo. Antennae longiuscul<3e, 

 sub-pectinatse. Abdomen alas posticas longe superans. 

 Pedes longiusculi, sat robusti. Alae anticee acutae, vix fal- 

 catae. 



Male. — Body rather slender. Frontal tuft prominent. Pro- 

 boscis distinct. Palpi obliquely ascending, not rising higher than 

 the front ; 2nd joint broad ; 3rd conical, not more than one- 

 eighth of the length of the 2nd, Antennae rather long, slightly 

 pectinated. Abdomen cylindric-conical, extending much beyond 

 the hind-wings. Legs rather long and stout ; hind-tibiae with the 

 1st pair of spurs much longer than the 2nd. Wings rather small. 

 Fore-wings acute, but hardly falcate ; costa straight ; exterior 

 border convex, moderately oblique. Hind- wings rounded. 



Baniana incequal'is. 



Mas, — Cinerascente-cervina, alis anticis nigro-lineatis, gutta 

 basali nigra, linea interiore pallido-marginata apud costam 

 posticeque dilatata, linea exteriore costam versus obsoleta 

 intus pallido-marginata extus diffusa, reniformi magna, orbi- 

 culari punctiformi, alis posticis cinereo-fuscis. 



Male. — Fawn-colour, slightly tinged with cinereous, cinereous 

 brown beneath. Fore-wings with a black basal dot, and with a 

 black, pale-bordered interior line, which is much dilated on the 

 costa, and still more hindward, where it forms a triangular black 

 spot; exterior line black, obsolete towards the costa, concisely 

 pale-bordered on the inner side, diffuse on the outer side, inter- 

 secting the reniforrn mark, which is large and open ; orbicular 



