1090 CATALOG DE OF 



Male. Brown, fawn-colour beneath. Frontal tuft porrect, 

 flat, cinereous-bordered. Palpi smooth, obliquely ascending", rising 

 much higher than the vertex; second joint broad; third cinereous, 

 slender, nearly as long as the second, but not more than one-fourth 

 of its breadth. Antennae stout, strongly setose. Abdomen extend- 

 ing a little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft compressed, very 

 small. Legs long, smooth, slender ; fore femora and fore tibiae 

 short, stout, fringed. Wings with three blackish zigzag lines; first 

 line on the inner side of the orbicular mark ; second on the inner side 

 of the reniform mark ; third double, more distinct; a double submar- 

 ginal row of black points ; marginal festoon black, accompanied by 

 black points ; reniform large, brown-bordered, containing a blackish 

 point; under side with the reniform cinereous-bordered and more 

 distinct ; exterior line cinereous, undulating, blackish-bordered ; 

 submarginal points accompanied by cinereous points. Fore wings 

 hardly acute; orbicular mark forming a blackish ringlet. Length 

 of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. San tavern. From Mr. Bales' collection. 



HYPERNARIA ? CONTRACTA. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi erectly verticem longe superant.es, articulo 

 2d subfimbriato, So lineari basi apiceque cinereo ; antennce 

 serratce ; thorax fusco bifasciatus ; abdomen quadricristatum, 

 fasciculo apicali nigricante ; ala linea fusca obliqua subrecta, 

 linea exteriore cinerea undulata fusco marginata, spatio exte- 

 riore fusco , linea submarginali cinerea angulosa indistincta ; 

 anticce linea cinerea apud costam valde flexa, lineis duabus 

 basalibus cinereis angulosis fusco marginatis, linea ante media 

 fusca undulata, plaga subaplcali cinerea. 



Male. Dull fawn-colour, stout. Palpi pubescent, erect, 

 rising much higher than the vertex ; second joint with a short 

 thick-set fringe ; third linear, cinereous at the base and at the tip, 

 much shorter than the second. Antennae stout, serrated, setose, 

 pubescent. Thorax with two brown bands. Abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings ; segments from the first to the fourth 

 crested ; fourth crest very small ; apical tuft small, slightly com- 

 pressed, blackish above. Legs stout; femora and tibia? fringed ; 

 spurs long, stout. Wings moderately broad, with an oblique nearly 

 straight brown line, near which there is an exterior cinereous undu- 

 lating line ; the latter is bordered with dark brown on the inner 



