472 - CATALOGUE OF 



Genus MAMALA. * 



Fcem. Corpus sat crassum. Proboscis valida. Palpi robusti, 

 porrecti, longi, vix angulati ; articulus 3us 2o brevior, vix obliquus. 

 Antennae breves, valid ae. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes 

 breves, validi ; tibiae posticae dense pilosse, calcaribus quatuor parvis. 

 Alae breviuseulse, latiusculae. Alae anticae subacutae. 



Female. Body ratber tbick. Proboscis robust. Palpi stout, 

 porrect, very slightly inclined downward, much longer than the 

 breadth of the head, the three joints forming two slight angles ; 

 second joint much longer than the first, and than the third, which 

 is obliquely truncated at the tip. Antennae short, stout. Abdomen 

 conical towards the tip, extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 short, stout; hind tibiae densely pilose, with four short spurs. 

 Wings rather short and broad. Fore wings slightly acute; costa 

 straight ; exterior border slightly convex and oblique. 



Mamala instructalis. 



Mas, Cervina, subtus cinerea, alee panctis rnarginalibus nigris ; 

 anticce atomis nonnullis nigris, linea interior e fas ciaque media 

 arena ta cinereis diff'usis, linea exteriore concisa spatioque 

 marginali cinereis ; posticce fuscescente-cinerece, linea exteriore 

 fusca indistincta. 



Female. Fawn-colour. Abdomen and under side cinereous. 

 Wings with black marginal points; under side with a dark brown 

 denticulated exterior line, which is bordered with pale cinereous on 

 the outer side and is least distinct in the fore wings. Fore wings 

 brown, with some black speckles ; an interior cinereous line and a 

 middle curved cinereous band, both rather diffuse ; exterior line 

 cinereous, concise; undulating; marginal space cinereous. Hind 

 wings brownish cinereous, with an indistinct exterior brown line. 

 Length of the body 5j- lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



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



Fain. LTMACODID^l, C. Z. H. v. 1102. 



Genus AECTIOBLEPSIS. 

 Arctioblepsis, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. 33. 



