LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1701 
side with a brown stripe, which does not extend to the base. Fore 
wings with a brown basal streak, with some very acutely angular 
black streaks in the disk, and with a row of the same along the ex- 
terior border, towards which they are slightly brownish. Length of 
the body 9 lines; of the wings 21 lines, : 
a. North India. From Capt. Boys’ collection. 
Genus PITHEA. 
Mas. Corpus robustum. Caput, thorax et pedes pilosissima. 
Proboscis capitis latitudine multo longior. Palpi porrecti, caput 
paullo superantes; articulus 3us Jongi-conicus, acuminatus. An- 
tenne late pectinate, thorace paullo longiores. Abdomen alas 
paullo superans. Pedes validi; tibize postice calearibus quatuor 
longis. Alz mediocriter late; antice apud costam recte, apice 
rotundate, margine exteriore perobliquo. 
Maie. Body stout. Head, thorax and legs very densely 
pilose. Proboscis much longer than the breadth of the head. Palpi 
porrect, extending a little beyond the head; third joint elongate- 
conical, acuminated. Antenne deeply pectinated, about three- 
fourths of the length of the body. Abdomen extending very little 
beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibie with tour long 
spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight in front, 
slightly rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior border ; 
first and second inferior veins united at the base; third full four 
times further from the fourth than from the second. 
This genus much resembles some of the Noctuites, and is 
perhaps almost as nearly allied to them as to the Arctide. 
1. PITHEA FERRUGINEA. “~ 
Mas. Ferruginea ; palpi nigrt; thorax postice fuscus ; abdomen 
rufum, nigro guadrifasciatum ; tibie tarsique nigra; ale 
antice fusce, vitia costali testacea ; postice subcineree. 
Male. Ferruginous. Palpi and antenne black, the latter 
with tawny branches. Hind part of the thorax brown. Abdomen 
red, with four black bands towards the tip. ‘Tibia and tarsi black. 
Fore wings brown, with a testaceous stripe along the costa. Hind 
wings grayish. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 
Santa Fe de Bogota. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
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