1720 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Testaceous, with a slight tinge of fawn- colour. Head 

 blackish, with a whitish band in front. Palpi porrect, hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the head ; third joint extremely short. Legs smooth, 

 slender. Wings elongate, with some indistinct oblique slightly curved 

 fawn-coloured or dark brown bands, which are accompanied by black 

 points on the veins ; marginal points black. Fore wings acute ; 

 costa straight, with some blackish marks; exterior border slightly 

 convex, very oblique. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly 

 dentate. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Phibalaptekyx emarginata. 



Mas. Pallide lignicolor; caput et thorax aniicus obscuriora ; 

 palpi contigui, breves, lati, subrostriformes ; antenna? glabrae; 

 abdomen basi nigro fasciatum ; alee elongatce, lineis plurimis 

 obscurioribus indistinctis subrectis, vitta guttaque discali 

 nigricantibus ; anticce acutce ; posticce margine exteriore sub- 

 dentato postice truncato. 



Male. Pale wood-colour. Head and fore part of the thorax 

 darker. Palpi dark brown, contiguous, short, broad, subrostriform ; 

 third joint extremely short. Antennse stout, smooth. Abdomen 

 with a diverging apical tuft, not extending beyond the hind wings, 

 Wings elongate, with numerous indistinct oblique nearly straight 

 darker lines, and with a blackish stripe, which is continued from the 

 disk of the fore wings across the base of the hind wings, and is con- 

 tinued across the abdomen ; discal dot blackish. Fore wings acute; 

 costa straight; exterior border convex, very oblique. Hind wings 

 with the exterior border slightly dentate, truncated hindward. Length 

 of the body 4 \ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Cape. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



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Phibalapteryx eupitheciata. 



Foem. Cinerco-fusca, sat robusta ; palpi brevissimi ; alee elongatce, 

 sat angustce ; anticce acuta?, ferrvgineo subnebulosce, lineis non- 

 nullis denticulatis duabusque arcuatis plus delerminatis nigris, 

 linea submarginali cinerea angulosa ; posticce lineis paucioribus 

 minus determinaiis. 







