LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1295 



Female. Dark cupreous-brown. Body silvery cinereous be- 

 neath. Palpi stout, obliquely ascending, white beneath. Abdomen 

 extending a little beyond the hind win^s. Legs mostly brown 

 above; tips of the tarsal joints silvery cinereous. Wings rather 

 broad ; fringe white, except at the base. Fore wings rounded at 

 the tips ; a white spot in the disk ; a white elongated costal dot at 

 three-fourths of the length; a white point near the interior border 

 behind the spot, and another at the hind end of the exterior border ; 

 exterior border convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with a white spot 

 in the disk; three white points between the spot and the interior 

 border; a white point on the exterior border at somewhat behind 

 the middle. Length of the body 4£ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Desmia basalis. 



Mas. Nigro-fusca, cupreo subtincta ; caput antice argenteo-album ; 

 palpi oblique ascendentes, articulo 3o lineari ; antennae robustce, 

 pubescences, sublus rufescentes, apices versus argentece, fasci- 

 culo antemedio parvo, no do postmedio subtus excavato ; abdo- 

 men albo bifasciatum ; alee anticce subacutce, lineis duabus 

 subpallidioribus indistinctis, casta, gutta antemedia, macula 

 postmedia, guttaque costali exteriore albis, fimbria cinerea 

 poslice alba; posticce macula antemedia fimbriaque albis. 



Male. Blackish brown, with a slight cupreous tinge. Body 

 silvery white beneath. Head silvery white in front. Palpi squa- 

 mous, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex, silvery 

 white beneath, except towards the tips ; second joint extending be- 

 yond the base of the third ; third linear, about one-third of the length 

 of the second. Antenna? stout, pubescent, incrassated and exca- 

 vated at somewhat beyond the middle, reddish beneath, silvery 

 towards the tips, with the exception of a blackish line ; a slight tuft 

 at somewhat before the middle. Abdomen extending for half its 

 length beyond the hind wings, with a white band near the base, and 

 with another at two-thirds of the length ; apical tuft compressed, 

 very small. Legs silvery cinereous ; anterior legs brown above, ex- 

 cept the tarsi. Fore wings slightly acute, with two indistinct slightly 

 paler lines ; a white antemedial dot and a white postmedial spot, 

 both in the disk ; a more exterior white dot on the costa, which is 

 mostly white ; fringe cinereous, except at the base, white near the 

 interior angle ; exterior border convex, very oblique. Hind wings 



