LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 235 



Male. Pale cinereous, with a slight testaceous tinge. Head 

 and palpi brownish ; the latter broad, short, hardly ascending. 

 Antennae pectinated, simple towards the tips. Wings broad, not 

 long, minutely and irregularly speckled with black, with a slender 

 oblique nearly straight exterior ferruginous line, which is marked by 

 brown points; submarginal band brownish, diffuse, indistinct ; ex- 

 terior border hardly bent; discal point black. Fore wings acute, 

 hardly subfalcate; costa and exterior border convex, the latter 

 hardly oblique. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 15 

 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Apicia significaria. 



Foem. Cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes, subangulati, articulo 

 So conico minimo ; tibice posticte vix incrassata? ; alee amplce, 

 linea exteriore fusca obliqua subrecta intus nigricante nebu- 

 losa extus testaceo marginata, puncto discali nigro, linea un- 

 dulata submarginali e punctis nigris ; anticce acuta, linea 

 interiore angulata indistincta, litura discali angulata alba 

 nigro marginata, costa basi convexa exlus subconcava, mar- 

 gine exteriore vixflexo. 



Female. Fawn-colour, paler beneath. Palpi obliquely as- 

 cending; third joint conical, less than one-fourth of the length of 

 the second, with which it forms a slight angle. Hind tibiae hardly 

 incrassated. Wings ample; exterior line brown, oblique, nearly 

 straight, with a blackish shade on the inner side and concisely bor- 

 dered with testaceous on the outer side ; a black discal point and 

 an undulating row of submarginal black points. Fore wings acute, 

 with an indistinct angular interior line ; exterior line angular near 

 the costa ; an angular white partly black-bordered discal mark ; 

 costa convex near the base, slightly concave exteriorly; exterior 

 border hardly bent. Length of the body 5£ lines; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



