LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. - 1765 
Male. Body thick. Palpi porrect, pilose, hardly stout, vot 
extending beyond the head. Antenne deeply pectinated, a little 
longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending nearly as far as the 
hind wings. Legs stout, slightly pilose; hind tibie with two very 
minute apical spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings straight in 
front, angular at the tips, straight and rather oblique along the ex- 
terior border; second inferior vein nearly thrice further from the 
third than from the first. 
LoNOMIA VENUSTa. 
Mas. Cervina, subtus testacea ; antenne testacee; thorax antice 
flavescens ; ale apud margines testacee, fasctis linearibus fus- 
cescentibus ; antice macula discali alba fusco marginata, sub- 
tus apud costam obscure cervine macula discalt fusca ; postice 
gutta diseali fusca. — 
Male. Bright fawn-colour, testaceous beneath. Antenne tes- 
taceous. Thorax pale yellow in front. Legs testaceous beneath. 
Wings testaceous beyond the very slender curved exterior brownish 
bands, which are interrupted beneath; the outer one is almost obso- 
lete above, as is also the inner one beneath. Fore wings with a 
white discal spot, which has a brown ceutral dot, is bordered 
with brown, and is wholly brown beneath, where the space about it 
and towards the costa is dark fawn-colour. Hind wings with a 
brown discal dot, which is darkest beneath. Length of the body 10 
lines; of the wings 32 lines. 
a. Chili. From Mr. Children’s collection. 
Lonomia CYBELE. 
Ale concolores fulve, fusco punctate striga nigra, antice maculis 
tribus, postice unica fenestratis. 
Phalena Penelope, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 70, pl. 45, f. A. ° 
Bombyx Cybele, Oliv. Hine. Méth. Ins. v. 36, 43. 
Cayenne. Surinam. 
Lonomia ACHELOUS. 
Ale ferruginee, omnes fascia anticeque puncto albis. 
Bombyx Achelows, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 172, 25; Mant. Ins. ii. 110, 
28. Oliv. Enc. Méih. Ins. v. 34, 28. 
Phalena Achelows, Cram. Pap. Evot. ii. 22, pl. 111, f. A. 
Phalena-Bombyx Attacus Achelotts, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. 1. 5, 2406, 
ATA, 
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