LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1623 



ACIDALIA CONSECUTARIA. 



Mas. Pallide cinerea ; caput nigrum, vertice albo ; palpi supra 

 nigri, caput perpaullo super antes ; antenna dense setulosa ; 

 thorax antice cervinus ; tibice posticce subincrassatce ; alee 

 lata,fusco conspersa, puncto medio fusco, lineis duabus fus- 

 cescentibus angulosis, lineis duabus exterioribus pallide och- 

 raceis vix conspicuis, punctis marginalibus nigricantibus 

 elongatis ; antica vix acutce. 



Male. Pale cinereous. Head black ; vertex white. Palpi 

 porrect, black above, extending very little beyond the head. An- 

 tennae densely setulose. Thorax fawn-colour along the fore border. 

 Hind tibia? slightly incrassated ; hind tarsi long. Wings broad, 

 very minutely brown-speckled ; two zigzag brownish lines, one 

 antemedial, the other postmedial ; two extremely indistinct zigzag 

 pale ochraceous lines between the second line and the exterior bor- 

 der ; a brown discal point, which, as well as the lines, is more 

 conspicuous on the under side; marginal points blackish, much 

 elongated transversely. Fore wings hardly acute ; costa and exte- 

 rior border very slightly convex, the latter moderately oblique. Hind 

 wings with the exterior border regularly rounded. Length of the 

 body 4£ lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



ACIDALJA CONGRUA. 



Mas. Albida ; corpus pallidissime ochraceum ; palpi lati, caput 

 vix superantes ; antenna glabra, sat robustce ; tibia postica 

 incrassata ; ala lata, ockraceo conspersa, lineis tribus angu- 

 losis ochraceis, punctis marginalibus fuscis minimis ; antica 

 subacuta. 



Male. Whitish. Body with a pale ochraceous tinge. Palpi 

 porrect, broad, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint very 

 minute. Antennae smooth, rather stout. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft rather large. Legs slender ; 

 hind tibiae incrassated ; hind tarsi short. Wings broad, thickly and 

 minutely ochraceous-speckled ; three ochraceous zigzag lines, the 

 third postmedial ; marginal points brown, very minute. Fore wings 

 slightly acute ; exterior border slightly convex and oblique. Length 

 of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



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