LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 423 



Male. Cinereous-brown. Tuft between the antennae mostly 

 black. Palpi short, obliquely ascending, black above ; third joint 

 extremely short. Antennae moderately pectinated to beyond two- 

 thirds of the length. Thorax partly black in front ; black on each 

 side. Abdomen extending for half its length beyond the hind wings ; 

 second, third, fourth and fifth segments blackish. Fore wings 

 black-speckled, with a black patch on the base of the costa, and 

 with another enclosing the r'eniform mark, which is whitish and 

 contains a ferruginous streak; two oblique black lines, one on each 

 side of the discal patch ; a row of black marginal dots ; fringe 

 blackish, with seven quadrate whitish spots. Hiud wings white, 

 with a diffuse slightly festooned brown marginal baud. Length of 

 the body 12 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



North America. In Mr. Norris's collection. 



HETEROCAMPA ? NIGROSCRIPTA. 



Fusca ; palpi porrecti, pilosissimi, caput vix superantes, articulo 

 3o mini mo ; antennce serratce ; alee anticce lineis tribus trans- 

 versis nigria, la angulata strigas duas nigras emittente^ 2a 

 3aque unduluis, strigis nonnullis submarginalibus nigris ; pos- 

 ticce alhidce, apud marginem exteriorem subfuscescentes. 



Brown. Palpi porrect, very pilose, hardly extending beyond 

 the head ; third joint extremely small. Antennae serrated. Fore 

 wings with three transverse black lines ; first line forming an angle 

 near the costa, retracted thence to the base of the wing, emitting 

 two short slender streaks to the second line ; second and third lines 

 undulating ; second extending from somewhat before the middle of 

 the costa to near the base of the interior border ; third extending 

 from three-fourths of the length of the costa to three-fourths of the 

 length of the interior border; some longitudinal black streaks of 

 various length between the third line and the exterior border. Hind 

 wings whitish, with a brownish tinge along the exterior border. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



In Mr. Norris's collection. 



Genus EXCRETA, C. L. H. v. 1026. 



Excreta ltgnigera. 



Foera. Cinereo-eervina ; caput et thorax fusca ; alee anticce strigis 

 albidis, singulis duabus transversis obscure fuscis. 



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