LEPTDOPTEItA HETEROCERA. 1503 



abdomen ; exterior border snbcaudate or forming a prominent 

 acute angle, which contains a brown dot. Lengih of the body 

 5 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



Amazon River. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Hyperetts? inapplicata. 



Mas. Pallide cervino-cinerea ; palpi lati, porreeti, breves ; alee 

 fusco conspersce, linen duabus fuscis indistinclis denticulatis, 

 spatio marginali obscuriore ; anticce acuta. 



Male. Pale cinereous, tinged with fawn-colour, somewhat 

 ochraceous beneath. Palpi broad, porrect, much shorter than the 

 breadth of the head; third joint very minute. Antenna? broadly 

 pectinated. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. 

 Hind tibiae not incrassated. Wings thickly and transversely brown- 

 speckled ; interior and exterior lines brown, indistinct, denticulated ; 

 space from the exterior line to the border darker cinereous; exterior 

 border convex. Fore wings acute; costa straight. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Hyperetis alienaria. 



Mas et fcera. Albido-cinerea, cervino dense conspersa ; palpi 

 oblique ascendentes ; alee striga discali lineaque exteriore cer- 

 vinis, margine exteriore subangulato ; anticce linea interiore 

 angulata cervina, linea exteriore valde angulata, guttis duabus 

 submarginalibus nigris nonnunquam obsoletis. 



Male and female. Whitish cinereous, thickly speckled with 

 fawn-colour. Palpi obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the 

 vertex, broader in the male than in the female ; third joint conical, 

 minute, shortest in the male. Antennae moderately pectinated in 

 the male, slightly pectinated in the female. Wings with an exterior 

 1 fawn-coloured line; discal streak fawn-colour; exterior border 

 forming a rounded angle. Fore wings acute, with an interior fawn- 

 coloured line, which forms an angle near the costa ; exterior line 

 very deeply angular; space between it and the exterior border 

 ' mostly shaded with fawn-colour and containing two black spots, 

 i which are sometimes obsolete ; a few black speckles about the 

 i interior and exterior borders. Hind wings with the exterior line 



