LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1671 



Male. Glistening lead-colour. Palpi porrect, not extending 

 beyond the bead ; third joint extremely small. Antennae very 

 slightly pectinated, except near the tips. Abdomen bright red-lead 

 colour, cinereous at the base; second, third and fourth segments 

 with a black spot on each side. Legs stout, rather long. Wings 

 ample, blackish about the exterior border; three black lines; first 

 line undulating; second zigzag; third composed of broad connected 

 cuneiform whitish-bordered marks; a short transverse black streak 

 in the disk ; under side blackish. Fore wings with three black 

 basal dots and with aline of black dots near the base; marginal 

 dots black; exterior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind wings 

 with black marginal lunules. Length of the body 8 lines; of the 

 wings 24 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. Hamlet Clark. 



Fam. HYBERNIDjE, C. L. H. xxiv. 1156. 



Genus HYBERNIA, C. L. H. xxiv. 1157. 



Hybernia? tiliaria. 



Erannis tiliaria, Harris, Treatise 370. Fitch, 3rd Report. Ins, N. 

 York. 25. ' 



New York. 



Fam. LARENTIDjE, C. L. H. xxiv. 1163. 



Genus LARENTIA, C. L. H. xxiv. 1169. 



Larentia longipennis. 



Fcem. Pallide cinerea ; palpi nigricantes, porrecti, caput non 

 superantes ; alee anticce longce, fusco conspersce, linea basali 

 nigricante angulata, striga media nigra, linea media fusca 

 nigro varia valde Jlexa fusco plus minusve rnarginata, lineis 

 duabus fuscis submarginalibus angulosis fasciam albidam 

 includentibus, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Female. Pale cinereous, minutely brown-speckled. Palpi 

 porrect, not extending beyond the head, blackish on the outer side. 

 Antennae and le<*s slender. Abdomen not extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Wings long. Fore wings slightly rounded at the 

 tips; a brown partly black very deeply bent middle line, which is 

 partly or completely and broadly bordered with brown on the outer 

 side, and has a short transverse black streak near its inner side ; a 



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