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LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1613 



slightly convex ; exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique. 

 Hind wings with the exterior border angular in the middle. Length 

 of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



Thalera minuata. 



Fcem. Pallide glauco-viridis ; caput antice cervinum ; palpi 

 porrecti, lineares, gracillimi ; ales semihyalince^ lineis duabus 

 angulosis lineaque marginali albis ; anticce costa pallide och- 

 racea. 



Female. Pale sea-green. Head fawn-colour in front. Palpi 

 porrect, smooth, very slender, extending much beyond the head ; 

 third joint linear, as long as the second. Legs smooth, very slender; 

 fore tibiae and fore tarsi pale ochraceous. Wings broad, semihya- 

 line, with two zigzag white lines and with a white marginal line. 

 Fore wings acute ; costa pale ochraceous; exterior border slightly 

 convex, rather oblique. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



a. Santa Marta. From Mr. Bouchard's collection. 



Thalera glaucaria. 



Mas. Glauca; corpus albidum ; caput cervinum, vertice argenteo- 

 albo ; palpi ochracei, breves, oblique ascendentes ; antennae late 

 pectinatce, apices versas simplices ; alec lineis duabus lunulaque 

 intermedia obscurioribus, linea 2a denticulata albido mar- 

 ginata ; posticce margine exteriore vixflexo. 



Male, Hoary green, greenish white beneath. Body whitish. 

 Head fawn-colour ; vertex silvery white. Palpi ochraceous, obliquely 

 ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint conical, very 

 minute. Antennae broadly pectinated to two-thirds of the length. 

 Thorax and abdomen tinged in front with pale ochraceous, the latter 

 much shorter than the interior border of the hind wings. Legs 

 whitish ; fore legs mostly fawn-colour. Wings with two darker 

 green lines and with an intermediate darker green lunule ; first line 

 antemedial ; second postmedial, denticulated, bordered with whitish 

 on the outer side. Hind wings much broader than the fore wings; 

 exterior border very slightly bent in the middle. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. From Mr. Russell's collection. 



