LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 425 



arete applieatis. Abdomen fasciculo apicali minirao. Pedes validi. 

 Alae anticae acutas, cosU subconvexa, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 



Male, Body rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 lanceolate, porreet, as long" as the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 apparently incrassated, being furnished with short compact squamous 

 thick-set closely applied branches. Abdomen not extending beyond 

 the hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs stout; spurs stout, 

 moderately long. Fore wings acute ; costa and exterior border very 

 slightly convex, the latter hardly oblique. 



Allied to Gauris. 



1. Rhobonda gaurisana. 



Mas. Obscure ochracea ; antenna purpurea ; abdominis segmenta 

 nigro marginata ; alee aaticce disco purpurascente-nigra, atomis, 

 plaga costali fasciaque exteriore subochracei*, lineis tribus 

 ochraceis, 2a valde imdulata, 3a marginali ; posticce ochracea, 

 fascia flexa subinterrupta nigra. 



Male. Dull ochraceous. Body yellowish beneath. AntennaB 

 metallic purple. Abdomen with a black band on the hind border 

 of each segment. Legs ochraceous, with black bands. Fore wings 

 purplish black, except towards the base ; speckles dull ochraceous, 

 scattered over the wing, and forming by their confluence a costal 

 patch and an exterior band ; three bright ochraceous transverse 

 lines; first interior; secoud most deeply undulating; third mar- 

 ginal ; fringe purplish. Hind wings bright ochraceous, with a broad 

 black submarginal baud, which is nearly interrupted in the middle, 

 and is there bent and extends to the base ; space along the interior 

 border blackish, speckled with ochraceous ; friuge cupreous. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 49. HEMONIA. 



Mas et fcem. Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 

 porrecti, graciles, caput perpaullo superantes ; articulus 3us linearis, 

 2o non brevier. Antennae maris subpectinatae, fcem. setulosae. 

 Thorax squamosus. Abdomen sublineare,alas posticas non superans. 

 Pedes breviusculi, sat validi, calcaribus longis. Alae antics latius- 

 culae, rotuudatae, costa dilatata. 



