LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1711 



Male. Whitish. Palpi very short. Antennae stout, minutely 

 pubescent. Thorax with a slight pale fawn-coloured tinge in front. 

 Legs smooth ; hind tibiae with two apical spurs, one of which is long. 

 Wings rather narrow. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, with 

 a testaceous tinge along most of the costa, which is rugulose at the 

 base; four various black lines, of which the three first are double; 

 first line much curved outward; second angular; third much abbre- 

 viated hindward; fourth very deeply zigzag; some black speckles 

 between the lines ; marginal points black ; costa and exterior border 

 slightly convex, the latter very oblique. Length of the body 5 ? lines ; 

 of the wings 14 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



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Ypsipetes quad ri punctata. 



Mas. Viridescente-cinerea ; palpi validi, capitis latitudine vice 

 breviores, articulo 3o longi-conico ; antennae compressce, vix 

 pubescentes; thorax nigro quadriguttatus ; ala elongate; an- 

 ticce vix acuta, e lineis plurimis undulatis nigris trifasciatce ; 

 postica cinerea, lituris nutlis. 



Male. Greenish cinereous, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, stout, nearly as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 stout, compressed, hardly pubescent. Thorax with two black dots 

 on each of the tegulaa. Wings elongate. Fore wings hardly acute, 

 with several very undulating black lines, which are arranged in three 

 bands; costa straight ; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique. 

 Hind wings cinereous, without markings. Length of the body 

 6? lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



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 Melanthu bicuspid aria. 

 Melanthia bicuspidaria, Ghiliani, Lepidotteri Sardi, 89. 

 Sardinia. 



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