

LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1375 



base. Hind tibiae inerassated. Wings ample. Fore wings ratber ob- 

 tuse, speckled with black ; basal and interior lines black, dentate ; sub- 

 marginal line whitish, zigzag, intersecting a row of black streaks; 

 discal lunule and marginal lunules black ; two reddish brown patches 

 hind ward, one between the two black lines, the other by the interior 

 angle ; exterior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind win^s brown, 

 woolly; interior border densely tufted along the basal part. Wings 

 beneath brownish, with a broad blackish submarginal band. Length 

 of the body 11 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



Genus 27. SPARGANIA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Palpi caput sat superantes; articulus 3us 

 longus, nudus, spatulatus. Antennas breves, maris pubescentes. 

 Abdomen sat robustnm, maris apice obtusum. Alae integra?, rotun- 

 datae; anticae suboblonuae, lineis undulatis dentatis, strigis costali- 

 bus nigris; posticae angusta?, discolores. 



Spargania, Guen. Phal. ii. 454. 



Body rather slender. Palpi extending rather far beyond the 

 head ; third joint long, bare, spatulate. Antennae short, pubescent 

 in the male. Abdomen rather robust, obtuse at the tip in the male. 

 Wings entire, rounded. Fore wings slightly oblong, with undu- 

 lating and dentate lines and with black costal streaks. Hind wings 

 narrow, differing in colour from the fore wings. 



North America. 



1. Spargania magnoliata. 



Mas et fcem. Alba ; ulce anticce lineis plurimis niyris undulatis 

 dentalis, striya discaii atra ; postica sub cameo- alb a, lituris 

 vix ullis. 



Spargania magnoliata, Guen. Phal. ii. 455, 1653. 



Canada. 



South America. 



2. Spargania angustakia. 



Lutescente-viridis ; ala? anticce lineis nonnullis obliquis guttulari- 

 bus nigris, linea submarginali alba denticulatu, strigulis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; postica lutea, vittis duabus marginalibus 

 nigris. 



