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subquadrate. Legs stout, slightly pilose, rather long; hind tibiae 

 with four ^moderately long spurs. Wings elongate. Fore wings 

 Darrow, rounded at the tips ; eosta straight ; exterior border con- 

 vex, hardly oblique. Hind wings seraihy aline. Female. — An- 

 tennae smooth, very slender. 



1. Melitara prodenialis. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-cervina ; alee anticce nigro subconspersis 

 antice atbido-cinerece, lineis duabus nigris angulosis remotis, 

 2a cinereo marginata, puncto discali punctisque marginalibus 

 nigris ; poslicce alba, semihyalirae. apud coslam pallide cer- 

 vina, linea marginali fusca. 



Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour. Fore wings very thinly 

 and minutely black-speckled, mostly whitish cinereous in front; 

 interior and exterior lines black, zigzag, remote from each other, 

 the latter bordered with pale cinereous; discal point and marginal 

 poiuts black. Hind wings white, semihyaline, pale fawn-coloured 

 along the costa ; marginal line brown. Length of the body 6 — 9 

 lines; of the wings 16 — 20 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus 90. ADRA. 



Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi por- 

 recti, caput paullo superautes ; articulus 2us subtus pubescens; 3us 

 gracilis, acutus, minimus. Antennae breviuscula;, pectinatse. Ab- 

 domen alas posticas superans, apice subcompressum vix fascicula- 

 tum. Pedes laeves, sat validi; tibiae posticae quadricalcaratae. 

 Alae anticae angustae, elongatae, apice subrotuudatse, margine exte- 

 riore perobliquo. 



Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, 

 extending a little beyond the head ; second joint moderately stout, 

 pubescent beneath ; third acute, very much more slender than the 

 second, and not more than one-sixth of its length. Antennae rather 

 short, moderately pectinated. Abdomen extending beyond the 

 hind wings, slightly compressed at the tip ; apical tuft extremely 

 small. Legs smooth, rather stout; hind tibiae with four moderately 

 long spurs. Wings narrow, elongated. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips ; costa straight ; exterior border convex, very 

 oblique. 



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