LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 139 



SCEDROSA EXTENSA. 



Foem. Nigro-fusca ; palpi Iceves, graciles, vix ascendentes, caput 

 vix superantes, articulo So minimo ; antennce vix pectino,tde; 

 abdomen subtus cinereum, alas posticas superans ; pedes breves, 

 laves, validly calcaribus parvis ; alee anticce amplce, fascia lata 

 lutea vix obliqua apud margines dilatata ; posticce plaga cos- 

 tali subapicali maculaque discali elongata informi conspersa 

 luteis. 



Female. Blackish brown. Palpi smooth, slender, hardly 

 ascending, bardiy extending beyond the head ; third joint very 

 minute. Antennae hardly pectinated. Abdomen extending some- 

 what beyond the hind wings, cinereous beneath. Legs short, stout, 

 smooth ; hind tibiae with four short stout spurs. Wings long, 

 broad. Fore wings with a broad hardly oblique luteous band, which 

 is slightly dilated at each end and is continued in a costal subapical 

 luteous patch on the hind wings ; the latter have a luteous elongated 

 indeterminate speckled spot in the disk. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Gardner's colloction. 



Genus DAECETA. 

 Darceta hesperica. 

 hesperica, Bd. H.-Sch. Lep. ExoL pi. 92, f. 524—526. 

 Interior of Brazil. 



Genus GETTA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi validi, 

 squamosi, oblique ascendentes, verticem non superantes ; articulus 

 3us minimus. Antennae subpectinata?. Abdomen longum, sub- 

 attenuatum, alas posiicas longissime superans ; fasciculus apicalis 

 minimus. Pedes laeves, validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longis robustis. Alae anticae amplae, apice subrotundatae, margine 

 exteriore convexo perobliquo. 



Male. Most allied to Isionda. Body stout. Proboscis mode- 

 rately long. Palpi stout, smooth, squamous, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint extremely minute. 

 Antennae slightly pectinated. Abdomen long, slightly tapering 



