LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEEA. 1227 



Male and female. White. Palpi slender, obliquely ascending, 

 rising higher than the vertex ; second joint very pilose beneath, 

 with an ochraceous black-speckled oblique streak on the outer side ; 

 third lanceolate, ochraceous towards the tip, much shorter than the 

 second. Thorax with two ochraceous dots on each side in front, 

 and with one near the hind border. Wings with a broad dentate 

 oblique middle pale ochraceous slightly blackish-bordered band, and 

 with a narrow undulating pale ochraceous submarginal band ; mar- 

 ginal line deeper ochraceous. Male. — Antennae stout. First and 

 second abdominal segments with a transverse ochraceous spot on 

 each ; the following segments from the third to the eighth fawn- 

 colour, with white hind borders and with a brown triangular spot 

 on each. Wings with the band black-speckled towards the interior 

 border. Female. — Antennae slender. Abdominal segments, except 

 the first, with broad blackish bands. Wings with the band much 

 more black-speckled than that of the male. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a, b. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



PYKALIS DISPARAL1S. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi breves, oblique ascendentes, articulo 2o lato, 

 So conico ; pedes robusti, tibiis tarsisque anticis nigricantibus 

 cinereo fasciatis ; alee anticce subacute, linea basalt abbreviata> 

 plaga postica, linea postmedia interrupta, punctis duobus cos- 

 talibus punctisque marginalibus nigris, reniformi angusta 

 nigricante marginata ; posticce cinereo?, semihyalince, litura, 

 linea exteriore undulata interrupta punctisque marginalibus 

 elongatis nigricantibus, 



Male. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi obliquely as- 

 cending, squamous, not rising so high as the vertex, very much 

 shorter than the breadth of the head ; second joint broad ; third 

 conical, minute, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae smooth. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs stout, smooth; spurs long, slender; fore tibiae and 

 fore tarsi blackish above, with cinereous bands. Wings elongate. 

 Fore wings slightly acute, with an incomplete black line at the base, 

 with a black patch near the interior border at one-third of the length, 

 and with an abbreviated outward-curved black line at three-fourths 

 of the length, the hind part of this line composed of points; two 

 black points on the costa in front of the reniform mark, which is 

 narrow and blackish-bordered ; marginal points black; exterior 



