LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



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Male. Ochraceous, paler beneath. Palpi red, porrect, pale 

 and moderately pilose beneath, as long as the thorax ; third joint 

 truncate, pilose at the tip, blackish beneath, about one-fourth of the 

 length of the second, with which it does not form an angle. An- 

 tennae simple. Abdomen luteous. Wings rather long. Fore wings 

 hardly falcate ; exterior border hardly oblique till towards the inte- 

 rior angle ; interior and exterior lines whitish, the former upright 

 and slightly undulating, the latter slightly oblique and forming an 

 obtuse angle near the costa ; the other marks quite obsolete. Hind 

 wings luteous, with reddish borders. Var. p. — Reniform mark 

 forming a blackish spot. Length of the body 5 — 6 J lines ; of the 

 wings 13 — 16 lines. 



a, 6. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



Group ? 



52. Hypena? rusticalis. 



Mas. Fusca ; alee cinerea, anticce fasciis tribus rufescentibus ; 

 posticce basipallidiores. 



Hypena rusticalis, (Pyralis geometriformis, Herpyzon rectipalpis), 

 Hubn. Samml. ExoU Schmett. ii. 30, 188, f. 375, 376. 



Surinam. 



Africa. 



A. Abdomen longum. 



A. Alae anticae acutae. 



B. Alae anticae rotundatae. 



B. Abdomen non longum. 



A. Alae non angustae. 



a. Palpi non breves. 



b. Palpi breves. 



B. Alae angustae. 



derasalis, Guen. 

 namaqualis, Guen. 



jussalis, Walk. 



Abyssinialis, Guen. 



obacerralis, Walk. 



The first group is distinguished by its long abdomen, and by 

 its narrow and somewhat rounded fore wings ; the second belongs to 

 the first Kuropean group ; the third to the third European group ; 

 the fourth to the fourth North American group; the fifth is distin- 

 guished by the narrow fore wings, and by the palpi, of which the 

 third joint is longer in the female than in the male. 



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