LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1055 



lanceolato ; antennce longa, graciles, setosce; alee latce, brevius- 

 cutce, linea nigricante obliqua subreeta cinereo marginata 

 apud costam retracta, linea interior e fuscescente subundulala; 

 anticce acuta, reniformi angusta fusco marginata, punclis 

 marginalibus nigricaniibus. 



Male. Cinereous-brown. Frontal tuft porrect. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending, longer than tbe breadth of the head ; third joint lanceo- 

 late. Antennae long, slender, setose. Wings broad, rather short, 

 with a blackish nearly straight line, which is bordered with cine- 

 reous and extends from the middle of the interior border of the 

 hind wings, and is retracted to the costa at some distance from the 

 tips of the fore wings; a much less distinct and slightly undulating 

 brownish line nearer the base ; marginal festoon dark brown. 

 Fore wings acute ; four pale cinereous costal points near the tip; 

 reniform mark narrow, brown-bordered; marginal points blackish ; 

 exterior border slightly convex and oblique. Length of the body 7 

 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Thermesia morosa. 



Fusca; palpi oblique ascendent.es, capitis latitudine paullo lon- 

 giores, articulo So lanceolato; alee fascia nigricante oblique 

 diffusa, linea exteriore ferruginea cinereo marginata antice 

 arcuata postice subundulata, linea basali interrupta lineaque 

 submarginali diffusa angulosis nigricantibus, hac cinereo 

 marginata, reniformi indistincta nigricante marginata. 



Brown, cinereous-brown beneath. Palpi smooth, slender 

 obliquely ascending, a little longer than the breadth of the head ; 

 third joint lanceolate, nearly as long as the second. Legs stout, 

 pubescent. Wings with a diffuse oblique blackish band on the 

 inner side of a ferruginous line, which is bordered with cinereous on 

 the outer side, and is very slightly undulating in the hind wings and 

 is curved outward in the fore wings; an incomplete zigzag blackish 

 line nearer the base ; submarginal line blackish, diffuse, zigzag, 

 cinereous-bordered on the outer side; marginal festoon blackish. 

 Fore wings acute ; reniform mark indistinct, blackish-bordered ; 

 four cinereous costal points near the tip; exterior border hardly 

 bent, very slightly oblique. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



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