in the Collection of A. Fry, Esq. 255 



longse ; anticse acutse, raargine exteriore sub-recto perparum 

 obliquo. 



Male. — Body moderately stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi 

 broad, obtuse, densely pilose, obliquely ascending, rising a little 

 higber than the vertex ; 3rd joint indistinct. Antennae short, 

 moderately pectinated. Abdomen lanceolate, hardly extending 

 beyond the hind-wings. Legs short, stout, pilose. Wings broad, 

 stout, not long. Fore-Vt'ings acute ; costa and exterior border 

 almost straight, the latter very slightly oblique. 



Compsa saturala. 

 Mas. — Rufescente fusca, alis fimbria ex parte alba, alis anticis 

 cinereo-sufFusis, lineis nonnullis undulatis obscurioribus, 

 lineis exterioribus guttularibus rectis, litura discali postica 

 strigaque apicali guttulari flavis, linea costali interrupta alba, 

 alis posticis subtus gutta discali lineaque exteriore undulata 

 nigris. 



Male. — Reddish-brown. Wings with the fringe partly white. 

 Fore-wings with the surface mostly covered by a cinereous bloom, 

 in which there are several darker undulating lines ; these are suc- 

 ceeded exteriorly by straight lines composed of dots ; a yellow 

 hindward discal mark, and an apical yellow streak, which is com- 

 posed of three dots, two of which are intersected ; an interrupted 

 white costal line ; underside whitish along the interior border. 

 Hind-wings without markings above ; underside partly reddish, 

 with a black discal dot and an exterior black undulating line. 



Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Fam. NOTODONTID^. 



Genus Blera, n. g. 



Foem. — Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi 

 porrecti, graciles, brevissimi, caput non superantes. An- 

 tennae longse, glabrae, graciles. Abdomen lineare, breve, 

 supra convexum, subtus planum, alas posticas longe supe- 

 rans. Pedes mediocres ; tibiae posticse calcaribus quatuor 

 longis approxiraatis. Alse elongataj, integrae ; antice vix 

 acutae, margine exteriore convexo valde obliquo. 



Female. — Body rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi porrect, slender, very short, not extending beyond the 

 head. Antennae long, simple, slender. Abdomen linear, smooth, 

 convex above, flat beneath, conical at the tip, extending far 



