LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 108 I 



apical tuft small. Legs long, slender, smooth. Wings ample, 

 black-speckled, with two diffuse zigzag blackish lines, and with a 

 straight exterior ferruginous line, which extends from the tip of the 

 fore wings to somewhat beyond half the length of the interior border 

 of the hind wings ; an irregular more exterior row of black spots of 

 various size; marginal lunules blackish, angular. Fore wings 

 acute, with four black oblique marks on the costa ; orbicular mark 

 forming a small black ringlet ; two connected black spots behind 

 the reniform, which is large, and incompletely bordered with black. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Hypernakia rudis. 

 Mas. Cervina; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem longe superantes, 

 articulo 2o extus ferrugineo, So lineari cinereo ; antenna 

 longce, graciles, setosce ; alee amplce, nigro compersce, linea 

 fusca recta obliqua, spatio exteriore purpurascente-cinereo 

 suffuso ; anticce acutce, linea basali fusca angulosa, macula 

 costali nigricante, orbiculari e annulo parvo nigro, reniformi 

 maxima nigra, 



Male. Fawn-colour. Frontal tuft porrect Palpi pubescent, 

 slender, obliquely ascending, rising much higher than the vertex; 

 second joint ferruginous-red on the outer side ; third joint cinereous, 

 linear, much shorter than the second. Antennae long, slender, 

 setose. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings; apical 

 tuft very small. Legs long, smooth, slender; spurs very long and 

 slender. Wings ample, black-speckled, with a straight brown line, 

 which extends from the tips of the fore wings to somewhat beyond 

 half the length of the interior border of the hind wings; space 

 between this line and the exterior border tinged with purplish 

 cinereous ; under side brown speckled, with a postmedial hardly 

 curved brown line. Fore wings acute, with a zigzag brown line 

 near the base; a blackish costal spot nearer the base than the reni- 

 form, which is very large and mostly black ; orbicular mark forming a 

 small black ringlet; underside with a brown lunule in the disk. 

 Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 26 lines. 



Closely allied to H. Ortilia. 



Hypernabia gemina. 



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Fcem. Saturate rufa ; palpi subascendentes, caput longe superantes, 

 articulo So cinereo lineari subfimbriato ; antenna setulosce ; 



