LEPIDQPTERA HETEROCERA. 1193 



Male. Body slender. Frontal tuft prominent. Proboscis 

 short. Palpi squamous, slender, obliquely ascending, much longer 

 than the breadth of the head and rising very much higher than the 

 vertex ; third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the second. An- 

 tennae slender, minutely setulose. Abdomen very long, extending* 

 for full half its length beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft small. 

 Legs long, smooth, slender ; spurs long, slender. Fore wings 

 narrow, slightly acute ; exterior border convex, very oblique ; second 

 inferior vein as far from the first as from the third ; third about six 

 times further from the fourth than from the second. 



Phanaspa dilatatalis. 



Mas. Cinerea ; aide anticce nigr& conspersce, fasciis duahus nigris 

 deviis postice connexis, linea exteriore nigricante ; posticte 

 fuscescente-cinerea?, 



Male. Cinereous. Thorax and fore wings black-speckled. 

 Fore wings with two irregular bands, which are connected towards 

 the interior border and are formed by the speckles being more 

 numerous than they are elsewhere; first band across the middle; 

 second exterior, bounded on the outer side by a blackish incomplete 

 line. Hind wings brownish cinereous. Length of the body 8 lines; 

 of the wings 15 lines. 



Cape. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus ISTAEBA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, gra~ 

 ciles, capitis latitudine longiores ; articulus 2us fimbriatus ; 3us 

 linearis, 2i dimidio non brevior. Antennae graciles. Pedes lseves, 

 breviusculi, sat graciles ; calcaria longa, gracilia. Alee antica? 

 elongatae, latiusculae, apice subrotundatse, margine exteriore con- 

 vexo. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, slender, 

 rather longer than the breadth of the head; second joint fringed 

 above and beneath ; third linear, full half the length of the second. 

 Antennae slender. Legs smooth, rather short and slender; spurs 

 long, slender. Wings elongate, rather broad. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips; exterior border convex, moderately oblique ; 

 second inferior vein nearer to the first than to the third ; fourth 

 moderately remote from the third. 



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