LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 95 



Female, Yellow. Head, thorax and most of the abdomen 

 fawn-colour. Palpi very short, hardly extending beyond the head ; 

 third joint very minute. Legs slender. Wings minutely and in- 

 distinctly speckled with brown, with a brown straight oblique line, 

 which extends from nearly two-thirds of the length of the interior 

 border of the hind wings, almost to the tips of the fore wings ; exte- 

 rior border hardly angular ; fringe ferruginous. Fore wings sub- 

 falcate ; basul space fawn-colour, which hue is bounded by an an- 

 gular brown line; space between the line and the exterior border 

 wholly fawn-colour ; exterior border slightly excavated in front. 

 Hind wings fawn-colour for half the space between the line and the 

 exterior border. Var. /3. — Hind wings with the exterior part wholly 

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



Rio Janeiro. 



a, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



6. Gynopteryx? Numicusaria. 



Mas. Pallide murina, vix ferruginosa ; antennae pectinatae, apice 

 shnplices ; tibiae posticae subdilatatae ; aloe linea recta obliqua 

 ferruginea, lituris exterioribus pallide cinereis, margine exte- 

 riore non flexo ; posticae abdomen longe superans, ferrugineo 

 latissime marginatae. 



Male. Pale mouse-colour, with, a slight ferruginous tinge, pale 

 cinereous and without markings beneath. Antennae pectinated, 

 except near the tips. Hind tibiae slightly dilated. Wings with a 

 straight oblique ferruginous line, which extends from one-third of 

 the length of the interior border of the hind wings to near the tips of 

 the fore wings, where it is retracted and forms an acute angle; 

 some pale cinereous exterior marks; fringe ferruginous; exterior 

 border slightly convex, neither bent nor angular. Hind wings ex- 

 tending far beyond the abdomen, very broadly-bordered with ferru- 

 ginous. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a, ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



7. Gynopteryx? Gaurusaria. 



Fcem. Cervina, subtus ochracea ; corpus subtus pallide cinereum ; 

 palpi brevissimi ; tibiae posticae vix incrassatae ; alee ferrugineo 

 confertissime conspersae, lineis duabus ferrugineis rectis paral- 

 lelis, puncto discali nigro, lineis duabus fuscis exterioribus in- 

 comp Letts subarcuatis vix obliquis ; anticae costa apicem versus 

 concava nigro notata, margine exteriore convexo. 



