LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEBA. 1599 



smooth, slender; spurs long, slender; posterior tarsi extremely long. 

 Wings very ample. Fore wings much longer than the hind wings, 

 rounded at the tips ; exterior border moderately oblique, very slightly 

 festooned. Hind wings with the exterior border dentate. 



EttGAVlA BOGOTARIA. 



Mas. Fuscescente-cinerea ; alee fusco conspersce, lineis duabus 

 nigris dentatis, lineis nonnullis intermediis fuscis dentatis, 

 linea submarginali fmca dentata, linea maryinali nigra ; 

 anticce strigis tribus basalibus maculaque disci nigricantibus, 

 maculis tribus costalibus nigris. 



Male. Brownish cinereous, more cinereous beneath. Wings 

 thickly brown-speckled, with two black slender oblique deeply den- 

 tate lines; four or five more or less indeterminate dentate brown 

 lines between the black lines ; a submarginal brown dentate line 

 which is dilated on the hind side of each angle ; marginal festoon 

 black. Fore wings with three blackish basal longitudinal streaks, 

 with a blackish spot in the disk, and with three blackish costal spots. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



Bogota. In Mr. BirchalPs collection. 



Genus BITHIA. 



Fcem. Corpus gracile. . Proboscis brevis. Palpi robusti, 

 breves, subascendentes ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio non 

 longior. Antennae graciles. Pedes longi, graciles ; calcaria gra- 

 cilia. Alae amplae ; anticae peracutee, margin e exteriore recto ; pos- 

 ticae margine exteriore angulato. 



Female. Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi stout, slightly 

 ascending, a little longer than half the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint lanceolate, not more than half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae slender. Legs long, slender; spurs slender, moderately long. 

 Wings ample. Fore wings very acute; exterior border straight, 

 moderately oblique. Hind wings with the exterior border distinctly 

 angular in the middle. 



BlTHIA. EXCLTJSA. 



Hemerophila exclusa, C L. H. xxii. 320. 



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