LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 643 



POLITEIA JUNCTILINEA. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; caput nigricante bifasciatum ; thoracis 

 crista nigricans ; alee anticce strigulis plurimis costalibus 

 nigris obliquis parallelis, lineis duabus cervinis nigro mar- 

 ginatis disco connexis, linea submarginali alba angulosa, venis 

 submarginalibus nigro guttatis ; posticce cinerece. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Head 

 with a blackish band in front, and another near the hind border. 

 Palpi partly blackish on the outer side. Crest of the thorax blackish. 

 Abdomen cinereous. Anterior tibia) and tarsi with blackish bands. 

 Fore wings with numerous little costal oblique parallel black 

 streaks; a fawn-coloured black-bordered line proceeding from the 

 costa near the base, forming a large curve in the disk, then abruptly 

 angular and slightly curved to the costa near the tip ; another fawn- 

 coloured black-bordered line slightly curved from near the base of 

 the interior border to the disk and thence to the same border near 

 the tip, connected along its middle part with the first line ; a white 

 zigzag submarginal line, dilated at the tip of the costa; veins 

 between this line and the black marginal festoon dotted with black. 

 Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 

 24 lines. 



a. Auckland, New Zealand. Prom Mr. Oxley's collection. 



Fam. GORTYNID^l, C. L. H. ix. 154. 

 Genus GORTYNA, C. L. H. ix. 154. 



GORTYNA CERUSSATA. 



cerussata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 1864, 431. 

 New York. 



Genus HYDRJECIA, C. L. H. ix. 158. 



HYDR-32CIA LAMPADIFERA. 



Mas. Cervina; palpi erecti, caput non superantes, articulo So 

 conico ; aloe anticce litura discali maxima arcuata, gutta 

 lineaque submarginali fuscis pallido mar ginatis ; posticce 

 cinerece. 



