

LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1359 



Male. Ferruginous, stout, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi very 

 short, extending a little beyond the head ; second joint broad ; third 

 obtuse, very minute. Antennae moderately pectinated. Wings 

 elongate, slightly black-speckled; middle band blackish, straight, 

 oblique, obsolete in front on the fore wings ; exterior Hue blackish, 

 zigzag; submarginal band blackish, diffuse on the inner side; 

 marginal lunules black. Fore wings acute, with a blackish discal 

 spot; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique, with a white 

 dot on the middle. Hind wings with some whitish speckles along 

 the exterior border, which are slightly dentate. Length of the 

 body 9 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 



34. SCOTOSIA ERACTATA. 



Foem. Cinerea, vix fuscescente suffusa ; palpi breves, porrecti, 

 fimbriati, acuti ; alee nigro conspersce, puncto discali lunulisque 

 marginalibus nigris ; anticce elongate, nigro lineata, apiee 

 rotundata?, lineis basali et interiore rectis obliquis, tinea 

 exteriore valde undulati, linea adhuc exteriore minus undulata, 

 linea submarginali valde inter r up ta ; postias lineis apud mar- 

 ginem interiorem conspicuis. 



Female. Cinereous, with a very slight brownish tinge. Palpi 

 porrect, fringed, very much shorter than the breadth of the head ; 

 thud joiut minute, conical, acute. Antennae smooth. Wings black- 

 speckled ; discal point and marginal lunules black; under side 

 without markings, except a black discal point and a black sub- 

 marginal band. Fore wings elongated, rounded at the tips; lines 

 black; basal and interior lines straight, oblique; a trace of the 

 middle line on the interior border; exterior line deeply undulating; 

 another more exterior and less undulating line ; submarginal line 

 very incomplete; exterior border straight, very oblique. Hind 

 wings with traces of lines along the interior border; outermost line 

 extending from the interior border to the middle of the breadth. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings -14 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. * 



35. Sc*oxosrA stjgmaticata. 



Foem. Testacea ; palpi breves, fimbriati, oblique ascendentes ; 

 antennae, subselulosa? ; aim nigro subconspersa?, lineis media et 



