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LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 11 



•stly black-bordered line ; marginal points black. Fore wings 

 with a vitreous interior cliscal ringlet, and with an exterior whitish 

 discal patch which includes the vitreous lunule; a black interrupted 

 transverse line near the base, having two slender irregular brown 

 bands between it and the exterior line. Hind wings with a very 

 diffuse exterior band. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



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



4. Platydia abditalts. 



Mas et foem. Pallide cinerea, vice testaceo suffuw ; alee anticce 

 fvsco subconspersce, lineis subobscurioribus, punctis margin- 

 alibus nigris, margine exteriore angulato ; anticce lineis in- 

 teriore et exteriore undulatis, submarginali interrupta in- 

 distincia, punctis costalibus subapicalibus albidis i reniformi 

 (foem.) nigra. 



Male and female. Pale cinereous, with a slight testaceous tinge, 

 darker beneath. Third joint of the palpi much more slender than 

 the second, with which it forms an angle. Wings minutely speckled 

 with brown ; marginal points black ; exterior border forming a dis- 

 tinct angle; lines a little darker than the ground-colour. Fore 

 wings with the interior and exterior line undulating, the latter con- 

 tinued on the hind wings, as is also the submarginal line, which is 

 interrupted and indistinct; costal subapical points whitish ; reniform 

 mark forming a black spot in the female. Length of the body 

 4 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



«, b. Eio Janeiro. From Mr. Lamb's collection. 



Fam. 2 HYPENID^E. 



Frons fasciculo porrecto acuto. Palpi compressi, non dissimiles, 

 ssepissime longi pilosi et porrecti ; articulus 3us 2o brevior, thoraci 

 nunquam applicatus. Antennae rectae, ciliatae aut squamoso pubes- 

 centes, non tumidae nee nodosa, nee fasciculis pilosis aut nodosis 

 instructae. Pedes longi ; antici non fasciculati. Alae latae, tenues ; 

 anticae sepae squamoso fasciculatae, areola saepissime distincta ; 

 posticae amplae, bene determinates. 

 Hypenida?, Herr-Schaff. ; Guen. Delt. et PyraL 17. 



Front with a prominent and acute projection. Palpi com- 

 pressed, alike in both sexes, generally long, pilose and porrect, 



