LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



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Female. Pale cinereous, with a testaceous tinge, pale luteous 

 beneath. Head brownish. Thorax dark brown in front. Hind 

 tibiae hardly incrassated. Wings not dentate, thickly brown-speckled ; 

 interior, middle and submarginal lines pale brown, nearly parallel, 

 hardly undulating ; middle line slightly double, accompanied by 

 three black points in the fore wings and by two black subcostal spots; 

 marginal points black, elongated; under side with three blackish 

 lines. Hind wings angular. Length of the body 4? lines; of the 

 wings 12 liues. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



6. PARAPHIA ? EPIONEATA. * 



Foem. Albida, subiridescens, nigricante conspersa ; caput antice 

 fuscum ; palpi graciles, lineares, caput sat superantes ; tibia 

 posticce subincrassat.ce ; alee subdentatce, subangulatce, fasciis 

 duabus fuscesceatibus diffusis valde indistitictis, la exteriore, 

 2a sub marginal i ; anticce litura discali fusca minima ; pos- 

 ticce litura discali mediocri rufescente fusco marginata. 



Female. Whitish, slightly iridescent, thinly and minutely 

 blackish-speckled. Head brown in front. Palpi slender, linear, 

 extending rather beyond the head ; third joint full half the length 

 of the second. Hind tibiae slightly incrassated. Wings slightly 

 dentate and angular, with two brownish diffuse and very indistinct 

 bauds, the one exterior, the other submarginal ; discal mark brown 

 and very miuute in the fore wings, reddish brown-bordered and of 

 moderate size in the hind wings. Length of the body o lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus 16. BRYOPTERA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis valida. Palpi breves, recti, 

 disjuncti, frontem non superantes ; articulus 3us brevis, conicus. 

 Antennae maris et foem. graciles, filiformes, laeves. Abdomen 

 robustum, depressum, obtusum. Pedes laeves; tibiae posticae non 

 incrassatae. Alae spissae, dentatce, couspersae, nebulosae, concolores, 

 lineis dentatis. 



Bryoptera, Guen. PhaL i. 273. 



Body rather stout. Proboscis robust. Palpi short, straight, 

 apart, not extending beyond the front ; third joint short, conical. 



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