LEPIDOPTEEA HETEEOCERA. 55 



line obsolete, except in front. Hind wings with a brown line ; ex- 

 terior patch composed of confluent black speckles. 



e , ? Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



Male. Ochraceous, testaceous beneath. Wings beneath 

 with transverse brown streaks ; marginal space darker, diffusedly 

 purplish-bordered along its inner side ; discal point brown. Fore 

 wings hardly falcate ; interior line and costal subapical mark 

 purple ; exterior line ochraceous, very indistinct. Smaller than the 

 female. 



/. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



24. OXVDIA GASTEOPACHATA. 



Fcem. Testacea ; alee nigricante strigatce, linea ferruginea con- 

 cisa, fimbria fusca ; anticce apice valde productte, subspatu- 

 lata, spatio medio pallide fuscescente-cinereo ; posticce rotun- 

 datce, linea fusca arcuata. 



Oxydia gastropachata, Guen. Phal. i. 62, 75. 



Brazil. 



Genus 12. CYCLIDIA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis, robusta. Palpi graciles, 

 arcuati, ascendentes, frontem vix superantes ; articulus 3us brevis, 

 maris conicus, f'oem. truncatus. Antennae breves, robustae, com- 

 pressae, velutinaj, non ciliatae. Thorax globosus. Abdomen eras- 

 sum, cylindrico-conicum. Pedes breves, crassi, squamoso-villosi ; 

 tibiae femoribus vix longiores, posticae fusiformes calcaribus robustis 

 approximatis. Alae spissae, velutinae, integrae, macula discali magna 

 rotundata; anticae acutae, subfalcatae; posticae subtrigonas, non 

 caudatae, angulis rotundatis. 



Cyclidia, Guen. Phal. i. 62. 

 Euchera, Hubn. Zuir. 



Body slender. Proboscis short, stout. Palpi slender, curved, 

 ascending, remote from each other, applied to the front and hardly 

 rising above it ; third joint short, conical in the male, truncated in 

 the female. Antennae short, stout, laterally compressed, minutely 

 pubescent, without ciliae. Thorax globose. Abdomen thick, cTlin- 

 dric-conical. Legs short, thick, with squamous hairs; tibiae hardly 



