LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1659 
Male. Body rather slender. Proboscis elongate. Palpi as- - 
-cending, rather long; third joint lanceolate, less than half the 
length of the second. Antenne moderately pectinated, nearly 
three-fourths of the length of the body. Abdomen extending for 
half its length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather long; hind 
tibie with four minute spurs. Wings narrow. Fore wings straight 
in front, hardly acuminated at the tips, extremely oblique along the 
exterior border; first, second and third inferior veins approxMmate 
at the base ; fourth very remote. 
AVELA DIVERSA. 
Mas. Nigricans ; caput antice, palpi subtus, thoracis latera an- 
tica, abdominisque vitte due ventrales albida; ale flave, 
antice basi dimidioque apicalt fasciam obliquam flava in- 
cludente nigris, postice nigro marginate. 
Male. Blackish. Head whitish in front. Palpi whitish 
beneath. Thorax whitish on each side in front. Abdomen with a 
whitish stripe along each side beneath. Wings yellow. Fore 
wings black at the base; apical half obliquely black, including an 
oblique yellow band. Hind wings with a broad blackish border, 
which is very narrow for a short space towards the tip of the exterior 
margin. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 
Brazil. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
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CurysavcE? FLAVELATA. 
Nigra; ale flave, nigro late marginate, antice apices versus nigre 
macula flava. 
Phalena flavelata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 112, pl. 348, f. B. 
Surinam. 
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Fam. NYCTEMERID. 
This family will comprehend the genera Devara, Aletis, Mennis, 
Phegorista, Stenele, Erchia, Massaga, Eudule? Rhosus, Sangala, 
Nelo, Melanchroia, Nyctemera, Pterothysanus, Otroeda, E'uschema ? 
Presos, Barbicornis ? Psychomorpha ? Caralisa-and Arina. 
Some of the genera, like a few of the Pericopide and of the 
Chaleostide, have much resemblance to the Rhopalocera. The body 
