LEP1D0PTERA HETEROCERA. 965 



Genus ATHYKMA, C. L. H., xiv. 1416. 



Athyrma tetragona. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi subascendentes, extus fusci, articulo So 

 lineari ; alee anticce fascia pallide ochracea, macula quadrata 

 atra 9 reniformi magna fuscescente nigricante submarginata, 

 linea exteriore cinerea valde undulata, fascia adhuc exteriore 

 plagaque costali fuscis, linea submarginali cinerea ; posticce 

 cinerece, fuscescente marginatce . 



Male. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Frontal tuft pro- 

 minent. Palpi slightly ascending, extending a little beyond the 

 head, brown on the outer side ; third joint linear, about one-third 

 of the length of the second. Antenna setulose. Legs slender, 

 cinereous. Fore wings with a pale ochraceous band passing along 

 the outer side of a quadrate deep black spot which is near the base 

 of the interior border ; reniform mark large, brownish, incompletely 

 blackish-bordered, contiguous to a serpentine cinereous line, which 

 extends from near the tip of the costa to the middle of the interior 

 border, and is partly bordered by a brown band, which is very broad 

 towards the interior border; a broad costal patch on the inner side of 

 this line, to which near the costa the submarginal cinereous line is 

 united ; marginal festoon reddish ; two pale cinereous costal points 

 near the tip. Hind wings cinereous, brownish towards the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 7? lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



Athyrma anguliplaga. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; corpus subtus nigricans ; palpi nigri- 

 cantes, lati, squamosi, oblique ascendentes, verticem vix 

 superanies, articulo So conico ; antennce ochraceee, subpecti- 

 natce ; thorax antice ater ; pedes nigricantes, femoribus 

 tibiisque poslerioribus tarsisque posticis dense fasciculatis, his 

 apice nudis ; alee anticce plaga apud marginem interiorem 

 quadrata lituraque discali attenuata atris, spalio exteriore 

 nigricante nebuloso ; posticce fascia marginali latissima. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Body blackish beneath. Palp} 

 blackish, broad, squamous, obliquely ascending, hardly rising higher 

 than the vertex; third joint conical, very minute. Antennae 

 ochraceous, slightly pectinated. Thorax deep black in front. 



