LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEIIA. 1721 



Female. Cinereous-browir, rather stout, cineveous beneath. 

 Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi very short. Wings elongate, rather 

 narrow. Fore wings acute, partly shaded with ferruginous, with 

 several slight black denticulated lines, and with two curved less 

 oblique and more distinct lines ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag ; 

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

 wings with fewer and less distinct lines, which are most apparent 

 towards the interior border. Length of the body 3£ lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



Phibalapteryx suppressakia. ^ 



Foem. Nigricante-cinerea ; palpi breves, compressi,fimbriati, sub- 

 rostriformes ; alee elongates, lunulis marginalibus nigris, mar- 

 gine exteriore subdentato ; anticce acuta, Uriels plurimis nigris 

 indistinctis subdenticulatis, fascia basali indistincta strigaque 

 subapicali ferrugineis, fascia media diffusa pallide cinerea ; 

 posticce lineis paucis indistinctis. 



Female. Blackish cinereous, a little paler beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, compressed, fringed, subrostriform, much shorter than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint very short. Wings elongate, mode- 

 rately broad ; marginal festoon black; exterior border slightly notched. 

 Fore wings acute, with many black oblique indistinct slightly 

 denticulated lines; an indistinct ferruginous band near the base, an 

 oblique ferruginous subapical streak, and a pale cinereous diffuse 

 middle band ; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique. Hind 

 wings with a few indistinct lines. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



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



Phibalapteryx pabvulata. 



Foem. Fusco-cervina ; palpi compressi, capitis latitudine paullo 

 longiores, articulo 3o conico ; alee elongate?, angusta, lineis 

 nonnullis nigricantibus denticulatis, fasciis tribus dentatis 

 pallide cinereis nonnunquam indistinctis, lineis duabus albidis 

 denticulatis nonnunquamobsoletis, lunulis marginalibus nigris; 

 anticaz subacutce. 



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