LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1 371 



Female. Cinereous fawn-colour, stout, whitish beneath. Palpi 

 dark brown, short, porrect. Thorax with a black band in trout. 

 Winos elongate; submarginal line cinereous, denticulated; mar- 

 ginal lunules black; exterior border slightly dentate ; under side 

 with the discal dot, the exterior line and the submarginal band dark 

 brown. Fore wings acute, with some brown undulating and dentate 

 lines; a black band near the base, parallel to the interior black 

 line ; exterior line black, denticulate, forming a prominent tooth in 

 front on the outer side, mostly obsolete hindward ; exterior border 

 slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wing* with two or three of 

 the exterior lines complete, the others confined to the interior 

 border. Length of the body 5—6 lines; of the wings 18 — 20 

 lines. 



Var.P — Palpi fawn-colour. Thorax not banded. Fore wings 

 without the black band near the base ; exterior line incomplete. 

 This may be a distinct species. 



Eio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



14. Pterocypha confusata. 



Albida, cervino pallido varia ; palpi nigrieantes, breves, ascendentes ; 

 alee amplce, nigricante ennspersce, linea exteriore nigricante^ 

 lunulis marginalibus atris, spatio marginali fusco ant nigri' 

 cante, linea subwarginali albida angulosa ex parte obsoleta ; 

 antica apiee rotundatce, margine exteriore convexo sat ob- 

 liquo ; postica? subdentatce. 



Whitish, tinged here and there with pale fawn-colour. Palpi 

 blackish, short, ascending. Wings ample, with blackish speckles 

 and with deep black marginal lunules; exterior line blackish, 

 dentate in the fore wings ; marginal space mostly brown or blackish, 

 including the white zigzag submarginal line, which is partly ob- 

 solete ; under side with a blackish discal dot and with a broad 

 blackish submarginal band. Fore wings rounded at the tips; 

 speckles here and there confluent; exterior border convex, rather 

 oblique. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly dentate. 

 Length of the body 8 ? lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 25. POLYSEMIA. 



Fcem. Proboscis crassa. Palpi ascendentes, sat graciles, caput 

 superautes; articulus 3us filiformis, optime determinate. Antennae 



