LEPIDOPTEKA HETEBOCEBA. 1267 



Male. Body stout, smooth. Front prominent. Proboscis 

 rather long. Palpi smooth, slender, porrect, not extending be- 

 yond the head ; third joint acute, very minute. Antennae smooth, 

 rather short and stout. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind 

 wings; apical tuft small. Legs smooth, moderately stout; spurs 

 long, slender. Wings elongate, rather broad. Fore wings rectan- 

 gular at the tips; hind part of the exterior border very oblique; 

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

 remote from the third. Hind wings slightly acute. 



This genus may be distinguished from Cardamyla by the 

 structure of the palpi. 



MOLVENA GUTTALIS. 



Mas. Alba ; caput nigro guttatum ; palpi nigri ; thorax nigro 

 sex maculatus ; abdomen fasciis interrupts nigris ; alee anticce 

 fasciis macularibus annulisque tribus nigris ; posticce gutta, 

 linea exteriore fasciaque marginali nigris. 



Male. White. Head with a black dot on the vertex. Palpi 

 mostly black. Thorax with a band in front composed of four black 

 spots, with a black spot in the disk and with a smaller black spot 

 near the hind border. Abdomen with interrupted black bands; 

 under side with an apical black baud. Tibiae and tarsi with black 

 bands. Fore wings with many black spots of various size, which 

 form irregular bands ; two black ringlets in the disk, and one on the 

 exterior border. Hind win^s with a blackish dot in the disk, with 

 an exterior incomplete blackish line and with a marginal blackish 

 band, which does not extend to the interior angle. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 17 Hues. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus HISBANDA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Fasciculus frontalis productus. Pro- 

 boscis conspicua. Palpi squamoso-pilosi, oblique ascendentes, ver- 

 ticem vix superantes; articulus 3us subfusiformis, 2o dimidio non 

 brevior. Antennae setis longis arcuatis. Abdomen alas posticas 

 paullo superans, apice subcompressum vix fasciculatum. Pedes 

 laeves, longiusculi, sat graciles; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longis. Alae anticae latiusculae, subelongatae, apice rectangulatae, 

 margine exteriore subflexo; posticae margine exteriore vix flexo. 



Male. Body robust. Frontal tuft rather prominent. Proboscis 

 distinct Palpi squamous-pilose, obliquely ascending, hardly rising 



02 



