458 CATALOGUE OF 



1. Stenoteachelys approximaria. 



Cinerea ; alee conferte conspersce, olivaceo nebulosce, lineis inte- 

 rfere et exteriore nigricantibus albido marginatis, tinea sub- 

 marginali angulosa albida ; anticce linea exteriore valde flexa. 



Cymatophora simplex approximaria, H'ubn. Exot. Schm. i. ; Lep. v. ; 



Geom. ii. ; Cym. B. a. 

 Deileptenia approximaria, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 317, 3061. 

 Stenotrachelys approximaria, Guen. PhaL i. 290, 464. 



North America. 



Var. ? Mas. Cinereo-cervina, robusta; palporum articulus Sus 

 brevissimus ; antenna late pectinatce, apice filiformes ; tibia 

 posticce vix incrassata ; ala lata, nigro conspersa, linea exte- 

 riore nigro undulata dentata extus albido marginata, linea 

 submarginali albida angulosa intus nigro marginata ; anticce 

 vix dentatce, basi albida, linea interiore nigra ; postica den- 

 tata. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, stout. Third joint of the palpi 

 extremely short. Antennas broadly pectinated, except at the tips. 

 Hind tibiae hardly incrassated. Wings broad, irregularly black- 

 speckled ; exterior line black, undulating, dentate, whitish-bordered 

 on the outer side ; submarginal line whitish, zigzag, mostly black- 

 bordered on the inner side; discal streak and marginal lunules 

 black ; under side without lines, with the discal mark obsolete in 

 the hind wings, and with a brown very incomplete submarginal 

 band. Fore wings hardly dentate, whitish at the base, with an 

 irregular black interior line. Hind wings distinctly dentate. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings i6 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus 24. XEBODES. 



Mas. Oculi extantes. Palpi recti, subrostriformes, articulis 

 distinctis, 3o rhomboideo nudo. Antennae fasciculis tuberculatis. 

 Abdomen conico-cylindricum. Pedes robusti ; tibiae posticae lanu- 

 ginosa?, valde incrassatae. Alae oblongae, laeves, subdentatae, lituris 

 paucis; anticae acutae, subfalcatae, cbsta valde convexa; posticae an- 

 gustae, angulatae. 



Xerodes, Guen. Phal. i. 291. 



