1520 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Yellowish fawn-colour, paler beneath. Head darker. 

 Palpi slightly ascending, very short, hardly extending beyond the 

 front ; third joint about half the length of the second. Antennae 

 smooth, flattened. Hind tibiae slightly incrassated, with four mode- 

 rately long spurs. Wings minutely black-speckled, with a middle 

 black oblique somewhat diffuse nearly straight line. Fore wings 

 acute, with two large purplish reddish patches ; exterior border 

 slightly angular. Hind wings with the exterior border dentate. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



This species hardly belongs to the genus Emiornos. 



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



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Herbita? Venusta. 



Saturate rufa ; alee lata, litura discali linea exteriore punctisque 

 submarginalibus plumbeis nigricante marginatis, lunulis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; antica? linea interiore fasciaque media nigri- 

 cantibus, gutta intermedia plumbea. 



Phalaena-Geometra Venusta, Cram, Pap. Exot. iv. 156, pi. 370, 

 f. A. 



Surinam. 



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Fascellina incensata. 



Mas. Cinereo-purpurea, subtus ochracea ; antennce pectinate; 

 abdomen apice ochraceum ; al& elongate, fascia obliqua Jlava 

 vix undulata; antica subtus fasciis duabus purpurascente- 

 cinereis. 



Male. Cinereous-purple, very stout, ochraceous beneath. Head 

 dark brown in front. Palpi ochraceous, obliquely ascending, not 

 rising so high as the vertex ; third joint purplish cinereous, very 

 minute. Antennae moderately pectinated. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings; tip ochraceous. Legs stout; hind tibiae 

 with four moderately long spurs. Wings long, with a yellow oblique 

 hardly undulating middle band, which does not extend to the costa 

 of the fore wings. Fore wings acute ; costa straight; exterior border 

 slightly convex, very oblique; under side with a purplish cinereous 

 stripe along the interior border, and two purplish cinereous bands. 

 Hind wings with an interrupted purplish cinereous marginal band. 

 Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Aru Island. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



