LEPIDOPTEUA HETEROCERA. 99& 



Male. Brown, whitish beneath. Palpi smooth, slender, ob- 

 liquely ascending, rising very much higher than the head and 

 nearly twice longer than its breadth ; third joint linear, somewhat 

 shorter and more slender than the second. Antennae setulose. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings; apical tuft very 

 small. Legs slender ; tarsi blackish, their joints with white tips. 

 Wings with an indistinct denticulated submarginal testaceous- 

 cinereous line; marginal lunules blackish, bordered with testaceous- 

 cinereous. Fore wings purple-tinged, with a large white patch 

 which contains the brown-bordered reniform mark, and is intersected 

 close to its border by two oblique ferruginous lines. Hind wings 

 with a blackish streak in the disk at one-third of the length from 

 the base. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wiugs 13 lines. 



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



MOCIS DISJUNCTA. 



Mas. Fuscescente-cervina ; fasciculus frontalis productus ; palpi 

 Iceves, nigricantesy [oblique ascendentes, verticem non super- 

 antes ; articulo So brevissimo ; antenna subpectinata, apice 

 setulosce ; thorax antice nigricans ; pedes laves ; ala anticce 

 gutta media, plaga postica spatioque exteriore nigricantibus 

 cinereo marginatis, spatio adhuc exteriore cinereo, punctis 

 marginalibus nigricantibus elongatis ; postica fusca, 



Male. Brownish fawn-colour, slender, cinereous fawn-colour 

 beneath. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi blackish, smooth, ob- 

 liquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; second joint 

 broad ; third very short. Antennae slightly pectinated, setulose 

 near the tips. Thorax blackish in front. Abdomen extending 

 somewhat beyond the hind wings; apical tuft slender, elongate. 

 Legs smooth, slender. Fore wings with about half the exterior surface 

 blackish, this hue passing into cinereous towards the interior border; 

 the inner side of this space is undulating, cinereous-bordered, and is 

 much retracted towards the costa ; a large blackish cinereous-bor- 

 dered patch on the interior border before the middle; an interme- 

 diate blackish cinereous-bordered dot; marginal points blackish, 

 elongated. Hind wings brown. Length of the body 7 lines; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



a. Natal. From Mr. Gueinzius' collection. 



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