LEPTDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



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tinged with pale purple. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 

 22 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders collection. 



Page 60. 

 Lagyra successaria. 

 Mas. Antennce valde peetinatce, apice simplices ; alee lineis duabus 

 dijfusis undulatis nigricaniibus, 

 Male. Antenna? pectinated except at the tips ; branches long, 

 serried. Wings with two blackish diffuse undulating lines. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Fain. 2. ENNOMID^l. 



Corpus robustum. Caput apud antennas pilosum ; frons glo- 

 bosa, raro fasciculata. Palpi squamoso-hirsuti, recti aut subascend- 

 entes, raro longissimi. Antenna? laminis pubescentibus instructs. 

 Thorax rotundatus, pilosus. Abdomen sericeum, alas posticas non 

 superans, foemina? crassum ovatum. Pedes non pilosi; tibia? postica? 

 sa?pa? tumidae. Ala? ainpla?, sa?pissime dentata? aut angulata?, aut 

 incisse ; antica? acuta?, saepissime bilineata? ; postica? sa?pissime uni- 

 lineata?. 

 Ennomida?, Guen, PhaL i. 64. 



Head pilose about the insertion of the antenna?. Front globose, 

 rarely tufted. Palpi squamous-hirsute, rarely very long, straight or 

 slightly ascending. Antenna? moderately long, not convoluted, 

 almost always furnished with pubescent lamina?. Thorax rounded, 

 with pale and fine hairs. Abdomen sericeous, generally extending 

 to the interior angle of the hind wings, thick and ovate in the female. 

 Legs moderately long, not pilose ; fore tibia? half the length of the 

 fore femora ; hind tibia? longer than the hind femora, often thickened. 

 Wings ample, almost always dentated, angular or notched. Fore 

 wings acute, generally with two lines. Hind wings most often with 

 on line. 



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