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Cerura RARATA. 



Mas. Argenteo-alba ; antenna latissime pectinatcc, ramis nigris ; 

 alee anticce lineis sex nigris transversis dentatis plus minusve 

 interruptis, punctis marginalibus nigris elongatis. 



Male. Silvery white. Palpi porrect, not extending beyond 

 the head. Antennas very broadly pectinated ; branches black. Ab- 

 domen extending rather beyond the hind wings; apical tuft sub- 

 quadrate. Fore wings with six slender dentate more or less incom- 

 plete black lines ; first and second lines approximate ; third remote 

 from the second and from the fourth ; fourth near the fifth, which 

 is still nearer to the sixth ; marginal points black, elongated. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Nearly allied to C. liturata, from which it may be distinguished 

 by the markings on the thorax and on the abdomen of that species. 



Genus HOPLITIS, C. L. H. v. 989. 



HOPLTTIS OCYPETE. 



Harpyia Ocypete, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet, iii. 566. 

 Amoor Eegion. 



Genus DESTOLMIA, C. L. H. v. 991. 



Destolmia? liturata. 



Foem. Cana ; caput nigricante fasciatum ; thorax fusco fascia- 

 tus, lineis duabus anterioribus transversis nigricantibus ; ales 

 anticce vitta fusca informi nigro strigata apud marginem 

 dilatata strigasque canas includente, strigis duabus anteriori- 

 bus albis, strigis nigris obliquis apud costam et apud marginem 

 exteriorem ; posticce fuscce, basi cinerece, fimbria alba. 



Female. Hoary. Head with a blackish band in front. Palpi 

 porrect, pilose beneath, extending a little beyond the head ; third 

 joint conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Thorax with a brown band, in front of which there are two transverse 

 blackish lines. Abdomen extending much bevond the hiud wings. 

 Fore wings with an irregular brown black-streaked stripe, which 

 widens in the disk from the base and occupies all the exterior border, 

 where it contains some hoary streaks ; fore border of the stripe with 

 two white streaks, of which the hinder one is bent and curved at the 



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