LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 861 



marginali albida denticulate lunulis marginalibus nigris ; 



anticcB vix acuta, lineis interiore et exteriore mgns angulosis, 



orbiculari et reniformi e puncto guttaque albidis ; posticce 



ciuerea, lineis duabus diffusis fuscis . 

 Male Cinereous-brown, slender, purplish-tinged, cinereous 

 beneath Palpi long, curved, compressed, pubescent, ascending 

 hio-h above the vertex; third joint acute, bare at the tip, much 

 shorter than the second. Antennae setose, slightly thickened and 

 hardly tufted at one-third of the length. Abdomen extending 

 a little beyond the hind wings; hind borders of the segments 

 whitish. Legs smooth. Wings rather short and broad; sub- 

 mai-inal line whitish, denticulated; marginal lunules black. 

 Fore* wings hardly acute; interior and exterior lines black, slight 

 7i ff za-- orbicular and reniform marks represented by a whitish 

 po?nt °and a whitish dot. Hind wings cinereous with brown 

 speckles, which form the interior and exterior lines. Length of the 

 ! body 4i'lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Several American Herminim have the antenna* of the male 

 ; nodose, but not as they are incrassated in the preceding species. 

 L United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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 Bleptina Phanasgalis. 

 Fffim Fusca, robusta, nigricante subconspersa ; palpi longi, gra- 

 c'iles compressi, glabri, usque ad thoracem reflexi, articulo So 

 lanceolato; antennae graciles ; abdomen alas posticas paullo 

 suverans • pedes glabri, vix robusti, tibiis intermedin supra 

 niaris: alee latiusculce, subpurpurascentes ; anticce apice 

 rotundatce, lineis cinereis, lineis basali et interiore fusco mar- 

 ainatis, lineis exteriore et submarginali undulatis, reniformi e 

 squamis nigris; postica pallide cinerea, extusfuscce. 

 Female Brown, stout, minutely blackish speckled, cinereous 

 beneath. I>alpi long, slender, compressed, smooth, curved over the 

 head to the fore part of the thorax; third joint lanceolate much 

 shorter than the second. Antenna, slender. Abdomen extending a 

 Stiebeyond the hind wings. Legs smooth hardly stout ; middle 

 tiW« black above. Wings rather broad, not long, slightly purplish- 

 tinned Fore wings somewhat rounded at the tips; lines pale 

 cinereous ■ basal and interior lines brown-bordered, the latter 



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