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Male. Fawn-colour. Wings with glaucous reflections, slightly 

 and minutely black-speckled, with a white oblique zigzag line ; 

 fringe ferruginous, mostly tipped with white. Fore wings with two 

 interior oblique very indistinct lines, which are hardly darker than 

 the ground hue ; exterior line abruptly retracted near the costa ; a 

 brown spot, which is sometimes obsolete, near the hind part of the 

 interior border. Hind wings with the white line irregularly and 

 sometimes broadly ferruginous-bordered ; two brown exterior hind- 

 ward brown spots, which are sometimes obsolete and sometimes 

 white-marked. Length of the body 6—6i lines; of the wngs 

 15—16 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 45. HERBITA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Frons non fasciculata. Proboscis 

 valida. Palpi robusti, porrecti, caput superantes ; articulus 3us 

 conicus. Antenna? pectinatse, apice simplices. Pedes validi ; 

 genua postica fasciculis longis densis ; tibia? posticae valde incras- 

 satae, calcaribus parvis. Ala? amplae, robustae, integra?, fimbria 

 brevi ; anticae apice subrotundatae, vix falcatae, margine exteriore 

 subrecto ; posticae abdomen superantes, margine exteriore subcon- 

 vexo, angulo interiore producto. 



Male. Body robust. Front not tufted. Proboscis stout. 

 Palpi stout, porrect, extending rather beyond the head; third joint 

 conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 moderately pectinated, simple towards the tips. Legs stout ; hind 

 knees with long thick tufts; hind tibiae much'incrassated ; spurs 

 short. Wings ample, thick, entire ; fringe short. Fore wings 

 somewhat rounded at the tips, which are hardly falcate; exterior 

 border nearly straight. Hind wings extending beyond the abdo- 

 men ; exterior border slightly convex; interior angle elongated. 



This genus much resembles some of the UrapterydceJ 



1. Herbtta Aglausaria. 



Mas. Lateritia ; vertex albidus ; pedes albido guttati ; alee nigro 

 subconspersce, lineis duabus obliquis angulosis vix conspicuis 

 albo punctatis, puncto diseali nigro albido-marginalo ; anticce 

 macula magna costali subapicali albida, puncto contiguo 

 albo. 



