LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 995 



rather slender. Fore wings acute, minutely brown-speckled, with 

 a hardly curved ferruginous line, which is bordered with pale yellow 

 on the inner side and is abbreviated at each end and extends from 

 near the tip to near the middle of the interior border ; submarginal 

 points blackish ; exterior border hardly curved, moderately oblique. 

 Hind wings brownish fawn-colour. Length of the body 8 lines; 

 of the wings 20 lines. 

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



Phurys contenta. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem paullo 

 superantes, articulo So lanceolato ; aim anticce aculce, linea 

 recta obliqua saturate ochracea flavo pallido marginata^puncto 

 discali nigricante, margine exteriore valde rotundato. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour, with a yellowish tinge beneath. 

 Palpi stout, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the 

 vertex ; third joint lanceolate, nearly half the length of the second. 

 Antennae setose. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind 

 wings. Femora and tibiae slightly fringed ; spurs long. Fore 

 wings acute, with a straight dark ochraceousline, which is bordered 

 with pale yellow on the outer side and extends from the tip to the 

 middle of the interior border; a blackish point at the base of the 

 discal areolet ; exterior border very convex. Length of the body 9 

 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

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



Phurys ptjra. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-cervina ; palpi lati, pubescentes, oblique 

 ascendentes, verticem paullo superantes, articulo So conico ; 

 antennce dense setosce ; pedes dense fimbriati, tarsis anticis 

 apice tarsisque posterioribus nudis r linea ochracea recta linea- 

 que cinerea indistincta obliquis apud marginem exteriorem 

 indistinctis ; posticce subcenece, apud marginem obscuriores, 

 fimbria albido-cinerea. 



Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour, paler and more cinereous 

 beneath. Palpi broad, pubescent, obliquely ascending, rising a 

 little higher than the vertex ; third joint conical, about one-fourth 

 of the length of the second. Antennae thickly setose. Abdomen 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings; apical tuft small. 

 Femora, tibiae and fore tarsi towards the base densely tufted. Fore 



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