LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1759 
conicus. Antenne late pectinate, thorace multo longiores, apice 
serrate. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, 
-pilosi ; tibiz postice calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Ale 
late ; antice apud costam rect, apice rotundate, margine exte- 
riore subrecto et subobliquo. 
Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi 
stout, porrect, extending some distance beyond the head; third 
joint ‘small, conical. Antenne much longer than the thorax, ‘deeply 
pectinated to five-sixths of the length, serrated from thence to the 
tips. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout, 
pilose; hind tibie with two minute apical spurs. Wings broad. 
Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, almost straight 
and very slightly oblique along the exterior border. 
1. TapEmaA SINENSIS. 
Mas. Cana, fusco punctata ; ale antice fasciis duabus fuscis, 
la perobliqua furcata, 2a subangulata via obliqua. 
Male. Hoary, slightly flecked with brown. Fore wings with 
two slender irregular brown bands, which approach each _ other 
towards the costa; first band very oblique, emitting a branch to 
the costa from the middle of its inner side, and with a blackish dis- 
cal spot on the outer side opposite to the fork and beyond the discal 
areolet; second band slightly angular, hardly oblique. Length of 
the body 6 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
a. Shanghai, North China. From Mr. Fortune’s collection. 
Genus LAGOA. 
Mas. Corpus robustum, breve, valde hirtum. Palpi brevis- 
simi. Antenne late pectinate, corpus dimidio paullo breviores. 
Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilis longis 
dense hirti; tibia postice calcaribus apicalibus parvis. Ale an- 
tice sat late, non longe, apice rotundate, apud costam recte. 
Male. Body stout, short, very pilose. Proboscis obsolete. 
Palpi very short. Antenne deeply pectinated, rather less than half 
the length of the body. Abdomen extending a little beyond the 
hind wings. Legs stout, thickly clothed with long hairs; hind 
tibie with short apical spurs. Fore wings moderately broad, not 
long, straight along the costa, rounded at the tips; second inferior 
vein as far from the first as from the third; fourth proceeding from 
the base of the wing.. 
Notr.—Mecytha testacea, p. 1122, may perhaps belong to this 
genus. 
