1760 3 CATALOGUE OF 
1. LAGOA OPERCULARIS. 
Mas. Pallide lutea; caput apud verticem albidum, antice fus- 
cum ; abdomen et ale postice testacea ; pedes albido pilosi ; 
tarst nigrt; ale antice basi lanuginose. 
Phalena opercularis, Smith and Abbot, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. of 
Georgia, ii. 105, pl. 58. ec 7 
Male. Pale luteous. Head whitish on the vertex, brown in 
front. Antenne white; branches brown, with white tips. Abdo- 
men and hind wings testaceous. Legs partly clothed with whitish 
hairs; tarsi black. Fore wings woolly, especially towards the base. 
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 
a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot’s collection. 
2. LAGOA PYXIDIFERA. 
Testacea ; ale antice lituris nonnullis fuscis nigrisque flexuosis 
discalibus. 
Phalena pyxidifera, Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. 
ii. 107, pl. 54. 
Georgia. 
Genus CANDYBA. 
Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 
graciles, porrecti, caput superantes; articulus 3us minutus, conicus. 
Antenne thorace multo longiores, late pectinate, dimidio apicali 
serrate. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. Pedes sat validi; 
tibiz postice calcaribus duobus apicalibus longis. Ale breviuscule, 
latiuscule ; antic apud costam subrecte, apice rotundate, margine 
exteriore subobliquo. 
Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, 
slender, extending rather beyond the head; third joint minute, 
conical. Antenne much longer than the thorax, deeply pectinated 
to less than half the length, serrated from thence to the tips. Ab- 
domen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately 
stout; hind tibie with two long apical spurs. Wings rather short 
and broad. Fore wings nearly straight in front, rounded at the 
tips, slightly oblique along the exterior border; second inferior vein 
full twice further from the third than from the first; third about 
twice further from the fourth than from the second. 
