LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1543 



wings with four blackish points forming; a square on the outer side 

 of the line. Length of the body 6 ? lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus PYBINIA, C. L. H. xx. 82. 



Pyrinia leucopygaria. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina ; palpi breves, robusti, oblique ascend- 

 entes, articulo So minimo ; antennae robusta, setulosa ; sexualia 

 argenteo-alba, maxima ; alee lata, fusco strigata, puncto 

 nigro ; anticce plagis duabus costalibus fasciisque duabus 

 intermediis f us cis, fascia 2a interrupta. 



Male. Eeddish fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 short, stout, pubescent, obliquely ascending; third joint extremely 

 small. Antennae stout, minutely setulose. Abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings ; apical appendages silvery white, very 

 large. Legs smooth, rather slender. Wings broad, minutely and 

 transversely streaked with brown ; a black point in the disk. Fore 

 wings acute ; two brown costal patches ; first patch near the base ; 

 second near the tip ; two intermediate brown bands, the first entire, 

 the second interrupted ; exterior border convex, slightly oblique. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Pyrinia xantharia. 



Mas. Late lutea; palpi robusti, oblique ascendentes, articulo So 

 longi-conico ; antenna setosa ; abdominis fasciculus apicalis 

 parvus, subcompressus ; ala lata, punctis antemediis, lineis 

 duabus postmediis angulosis fasciaque marginali ochraceis, 

 puncto, linea exteriore punctulari punctisque marginalibus 

 fuscescentibus. 



Male. Bright luteous. Palpi stout, squamous, obliquely 

 ascending, rising as high as the vertex ; third joint elongate-conical, 

 not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 setose. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings ; apical 

 tuft small, slightly compressed. Legs smooth, rather stout. Wings 

 broad, with two ochraceous zigzag postmedial lines, and with an 

 ochraceous marginal band, which is diffuse on the inner side; some 

 ochraceous antemedial points, indicative of lines ; a brownish point 



