1546 CATALOGUE OF 
stripe proceeding from the middle of the base, inclined at half its 
length towards the interior border and joining the latter near its tip. 
Hind wings white, brownish at the base, and with brown marks 
along the border. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 
18 lines. | | 
Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry’s collection. 
Africa. 
5. PHARGMATACIA PALLENS. 
Mas. FPallide cervina ; abdomen cinerascens, apice cervinum ; 
ale antice apices versus cinereo reticulate, postice albe. 
Rhizoma pallens, Boisd. Herr.-Scheff. Léep. Exot. Sp. Sér. 1 
f. 169. e 
Male. Pale fawn-colour. Abdomen grayish fawn-colour at 
the tip. Apical half of the fore wings ia i, reticulated with 
gray. Hind wings white. 
Guinea. 
2 
Genus 9. MORPHEIS. 
Corpus sat validum. Proboscis brevis, distincta. Palpi por- 
recti, caput non superantes; articulus 3us acuminatus. Antenne 
graciles, setaceze, thorace paullo longiores.s Abdomen elongatum, 
caput longe superantes. Pedes validi, pilosi, longiusculi; tibie. 
postice calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Ale longe, an- 
guste ; antice subfalcate acuminate apud costam subrecte ae id 
exteriore perobliquo. 
Morpheis, Hubn. Verz. Sitaieita, (Phalene Lodscantes Teredines 
Graciles), 196. : 
Myelois, Boisd. ; Herr.-Scheff. 
Body rather stout. Prohoscis short, distinct. Palpi porrect, 
not extending beyond the head; third joint acuminated. Antenne 
slender, setaceous, a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen ex-- 
tending for full one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 
stout, pilose, rather long; hind tibia with two minute apical spurs. 
Wings long and narrow. Fore wings falcate, nearly straight along 
the costa, acuminated at the tips, slightly undulating and extremely 
oblique along the exterior border; first and second inferior veins 
almost contiguous at the base; third about thrice further from the 
fourth than from the second. 
