232 CATALOGUE OP 



moderately broad. Fore wings rounded at the tips, moderately ob- 

 lique and slightly convex along the exterior border ; first, second 

 and third inferior veins somewhat approximate ; fourth remote. 



1. (EnOSANDA NOCTUIFORMIS. 



Cana, subtus albida ; capitis crista thoracisque vittca duce laterales 

 fuscescentes ; abdomen e guttis nigris univittatum ; alee anticce 

 fasciis nonnullis angustis undulosis aut angulosis, necnon 

 striga maculaque apud angulum interiorem fuscis ; posticae 

 fuscce, basifiavce. 



Hoary, whitish beneath. Head with a brownish crest. Thorax 

 with a brownish stripe along each side. Abdomen with a black dot 

 on each segment. Fore wings with several slender undulating or 

 angular oblique dark brown bands, and with a transverse more dis- 

 tinct streak by the interior angle, near which there is a brown spot. 

 Hind wings brown, yellow towards the base. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Genus 33. LAPARA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Caput parvum, breve. Proboscis 

 mediocriter longa. Palpi brevissimi. Antennas graciles, subcla- 

 vatae, thorace vix longiores, apice attenuate, vix hamatae. Abdo- 

 men lineare, thorace duplo longius. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus quatuor mediocriter longis. Alae sat angustae, non longee ; 

 anticae apud costam subrectae, apice subrotundatae, raargine exteriore 

 recto perobliquo, interiore recto ; posticae apice rotundatae. 



Male. Body rather slender. Head small, short. Proboscis 

 moderately long. Palpi very short. Antennae slender, subclavate, 

 hardly longer than the thorax, and attenuated but hardly hooked 

 towards the tips. Abdomen linear, full twice the length of the tho- 

 rax. Legs slender ; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. 

 Wings rather narrow, not long. Fore wings almost straight in 

 front, slightly rounded at the tips, straight and very oblique along 

 the exterior border ; interior border straight; second inferior vein 

 far nearer to the first than to the third ; fourth very remote. Hind 

 wings rounded at the tips. 



This genus has much outward resemblance to the Bombycidce. 



