LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA, 187 



Male and female. Whitish cinereous. Thorax and fore wings 

 with a slight pale fawn -coloured tinge. Fore wings with a silvery 

 discal line, which is contiguous to the fore border of a brown discal 

 stripe, and terminates beyond the middle of the disk ; an oblique 

 slightly curved silvery streak extends from behind the end of the 

 line to the tip of the wing ; discal point black. Hind wings white. 

 Length of the body 7 — 9 lines ; of the wings 16—20 lines. 



a— k. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 

 Esq. 



Genus 12. JUNCAKIA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Fasciculus frontalis productus, sub- 

 trigonus. Proboscis nulla. Palpi porrecti, pilosi, capitis latitudine 

 vix breviores; articulus 2us latus, convexus ; 3us minimus. Abdo- 

 men alas posticas longe superans ; sexualia magna. Pedes femo- 

 ribus tibiisque dense pilosis. Alae anticae latae, vix acutae, margine 

 exteriore flexo ; poslice margine exteriore vix flexo. 



Male. Body stout. Frontal tuft very prominent, nearly tri- 

 angular. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, pilose, almost as long 

 as the breadth of the head ; second joint broad, convex above ; third 

 very miuute. Antennae setulose, pubescent. Abdomen extending 

 much beyond the hind wings; apical tuft and appendages large. 

 Legs moderately long and stout ; femora and tibiae thickly clothed 

 with long hairs ; hind tibiae with lour moderately long spurs. Wings 

 broad. Fore wings hardly acute ; costa straight ; exterior border 

 forming a rounded angle. Hind wings with the exterior border 

 hardly bent. 



1. JUNCARIA NONAGRIOIDES. 



Mas. Testaceo-albida ; palpi extus fusci ; alee punctis marginali- 

 bus nigris ; anticce nigricante subconspersce, gutta discali 

 ochracea nigro marginata, tinea submarginali e punctis indis- 

 tinctis ochraceis. 



Male. Testaceous-whitish. Frontal tuft and palpi brown on 

 the outer side. Wings with black marginal points, which are 

 largest on the under side, where there is a diffuse brown costal 

 stripe. Fore wings thinly and very minutely blackish-speckled ; 

 discal dot ochraceous, black-bordered, blackish on the under side • 



