

LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCERA. 1931 



LoCHM^EUS MARINUS. 



marinus, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. 373. 

 Seekouk, United States. 



• Genus SCHIZURA. 

 Schizura, Doubleday^ Entomologist, 59. 



ScHIZURA IPOM^EiE. 



Heterocampa Ipomaeae, C. L. H. v. 1026. 



Genus EDEMA, C. L. H. v. 1028. 



Edema xylinoides. 



Mas. Cervina ; caput bicarinatum, postice cristatum ; antenna 

 serratce, apices versus setulosce ; thoracis tegulce posticce cance ; 

 abdomen alas posticas plus dimidio superans ; aim anticoe 

 fuscce, vix acutce, punctis atomisque nonnullis nigris, vittis 

 duabus abbreviatis, lineis duabus obliquis angulosis, lunulis 

 submarginalibus punctisque cosialibus pallide cervinis ; pos- 

 ticce cinerea? , fusco late marginatce. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Head with an erect ridge on each side, 

 and with an oblique crest which overlaps the fore border of the 

 thorax. Palpi nearly erect, not rising higher than the thorax; 

 third joint elongate-conical, less than one-fourth of the length of the 

 second. Antennae stout, serrated, setulose towards the tips ; the 

 teeth setulose. Hind tegulse of the thorax hoary. Abdomen paler 

 towards the base, extending for more than half iis length beyond the 

 hind wings ; apical tuft long. Legs stout ; femora and tibiae 

 fringed ; spurs long, slender. Fore wings brown, hardly acute ; 

 two zigzag oblique pale fawn-coloured lines; a few black points and 

 speckles ; two irregular pale fawn-coloured stripes ; one extending 

 from the base to the hind part of the exterior border, the other ex- 

 tending from the first line to the exterior border ; a submarginal 

 pale fawn-coloured line composed of lunules; some pale fawn- 

 coloured costal points towards the tip ; under side mostly brown, 

 with a few blackish submarginal points ; exterior border hardly con- 

 vex, very oblique. Hind wings cinereous, broadly and diffusedly 

 bordered with brown. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 

 22 lines. 



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



2 M 



