LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1625 



Female. White. Wings not speckled, with the exception of a 

 few very minute blackish points along- the costa of the lore wings; two 

 straight parallel indistinct very oblique testaceous lines; marginal 

 line brownish beneath. Fore wings acute ; exterior border straight, 

 very oblique; disk beneath slightly cinereous. Hind wings with a 

 few elongated black points along the exterior border, which forms 

 an acute angle containing a black dot. Length of the body 5 Hues; 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Mysol. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Page 829. 



PlT YE J A HISTRIONARIA. 



Geometra histrionaria, Moriz. Herr.-Sck. Exot. Schm. pi. 16, f. 71, 



72. 

 Pityeja bellaria, Cat. Lep. Het. 829. 



Page 835. 



Erosia oppositata. 



Fcem. Fuscescente-cinerea ; vertex albus ; palpi porrecti, sat 

 graciles, vix arcuati, caput non superantes, articulo So minimo ; 

 antenna breviusculce ; abdomen alas posticas vix superans; 

 ala? elongatce, sat angusta? ; antiea apice rotundatce, fusco sub- 

 nebulosce, linea exteriors punctulari punctisque marginalibus 

 nigris ; posticus plagis nigricantibns, linea alba valde Jlexa, 

 margine exteriore apud medium excavato. 



Female. Brownish cinereous. Vertex white. Palpi porrect, 

 rather slender, very slightly curved, not extendiug beyond the head ; 

 third joint extremely minute. Antennae rather short. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Wings elongate, rather 

 narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips, partly and slightly shaded 

 with brown, with an exterior line of black points, which are most 

 distinct towards the costa; marginal points black ; costa straight; 

 exterior border slightly convex, very oblique. Hind wings with 

 some blackish patches and with a much bent white line; exterior 

 border excavated in the middle. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie s collection. 



o2 



