LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1673 



ASPILATES ? CALIFORNIARIA. 



Mas. Pallide schistacea ; antenna pectinate ; alee punc to disc ali 

 ni>p-o ; antica fascia obscuriore nigricante marginata postice 

 abbreviata costam versus valde dilatata extus albido marginata, 

 linea submarginali albida undulata ; postica albidce. 



Plataea californiaria, Herr.-Sch. Exot. Schm. pi. 94, f. 537. 



California. 



ASPILATES ATROPUNCTARIA. 



Mas. Pallide flavescente-cervina ; caput antic e saturate cervinum ; 

 palpi pilosi, oblique ascendentes, articulo 3o minimo ; antenna 

 late pectinate; alee latiuscula, linea exteriore recta saturate 

 cervina, puncto discali nigro ; antica acuta, linea interiore 

 angulata cervina. 



Male. Pale yellowish fawn-colour. Head in front deep fawn- 

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

 vertex; third joint extremely minute. Antenna? broadly pectinated, 

 except towards the tips. Abdomen .slightly attenuated ; apical tuft 

 rather long. Wings rather broad, with a straight deep fawn-coloured 

 line, which extends from beyond the middle of the interior border of 

 the hind wings nearly to the tips of the fore wings, where it is 

 retracted to the costa; discal point black. Fore wings acute, with 

 a slight interior angular fawn-coloured line; costa and exterior 

 border hardly convex, the latter rather oblique. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



ASPILATES ABBREVIATA. 



Mas. Testacea ; palpi lad, obtusi, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 3o subobsoleto; antenna late pectinate; tibia postica sub- 

 incrassata ; ala breviuscula, puncto discali fasciaque exteriore 

 subrecta fuscis; antica acuta, conspersa, lineis duabus inte- 

 rioribus obscurioribus indistinctis, punctis marginalibus fuscis 

 minimis ; postica pallidiores. 



Male. Testaceous. Palpi broad, obtuse, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising so high as the vertex; third joint nearly obsolete. An- 

 tennae broadly pectinated. Hind tibiae slightly incrassated. Wings 

 rather short, with a brown discal point, and a brown oblique exterior 



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