1658 _ CATALOGUE OF 
alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes graciles, longiusculi; tibiz 
postice calcaribus quatuor longis. Alze mediocriter late; antice 
apud costam subrecte, apice subangulate, margine exteriore me- 
diocriter obliquo. 
Much resembling the Pyralites. Female—Body moderately 
stout. Proboscis elongate. Palpi curved, ascending to the vertex, 
incumbent on the head. Antenne slender, minutely serrated, much 
more than half the length of the body. Abdomen elongate, extend- 
ing for half its length beyond the hind wings. Legs slender, rather 
long; hind tibie with four long spurs. Wings moderately broad. 
Fore wings nearly straight in front, almost angular at the tips, 
moderately oblique along the exterior border; second inferior vein 
full six times further from the third than from the first. Hind 
wings almost angular on the exterior border. 
IsIONDA PYRALOIDES. 
Fom. Atra; caput subtus luteum ; palpi pedesque subtus, an- 
tenne basi, pectus, abdominis vitte laterales et venter-alba ; 
thoracts gutté due antice, vitte due laterales abdominisque 
macule dorsales lutea ; ale antice macula transversa exteriore 
posticeque vitia interrupta luteis. 
Female. Deep black. Head luteous beneath. Palpi white 
beneath. Antenne white at the base. Thorax with a luteous dot 
in front, and with a short luteous stripe on each side. Pectus white. 
Abdomen with luteous dorsal spots, and with a slender white stripe 
along each side; under side white. Legs white beneath. Wings 
with white streaks beneath at the base. Fore wings with a trans- 
verse luteous spot beyond the middle. Hind wings with a luteous 
stripe, which is interrupted near the interior border; under side 
white along the interior border. Length of the body 73 lines; of 
the wings 16 lines. . 
a. Tapayos. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
Genus AVELA. 
Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi as- 
cendentes, sat longi; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio brevior. 
Antenne mediocriter pectinate, corpore paullo breviores. Abdomen 
alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes longiusculi; tibie postice 
calearibus quatuor minutis. Ale anguste; antice vix acuminate, 
apud costam rectz, margine exteriore perobliquo. | 
