74 CATALOGUE OF 



from the middle of the interior border to the tip of the wing, near 

 which it is connected with a slender pale testaceous oblique slightly 

 curved costal line; snbmarginal dots brown, elongated, with pale 

 borders ; renifonn mark forming two brown dots. Hind wings with 

 brown marginal points. Length of the body 5-J lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



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Genus 14. HORMISA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Fasciculus frontalis acutus. Proboscis 

 brevissima. Palpi longi, graciles, compressi, subpilosi, obligue as- 

 cendentes ; articulus 3us 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae subpectinatae, 

 corporis dimidio non longiores. Thorax squamosus, pilis arete ap- 

 plicatis. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes graciles, nudi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus lougis. Ala? anticae margine exteriore sat 

 obliquo vix cunvexo. 



Male. Body slender. Frontal tuft prominent, acute. Pro- 

 boscis very short. Palpi long, slender, compressed, slightly pilose, 

 obliquely ascending; third joint lanceolate, less than half the length 

 of the body. Antennas slightly pectinated, about half the length 

 of tbe body. Thorax squamous, with closely applied hairs. Abdo- 

 men extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs slender, bare ; 

 hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore 

 wings rectangular at the tips, rather oblique and hardly convex 

 along the exterior border. 



This genus has some resemblance to the Herminidce in the 

 structure of the palpi, and is very like many of the Geometrites in 

 the markings of the wings, but agrees with the Hypenidce in the 

 frontal tuft. 



1. HORMISA ABSORPTALIS. 



Mas. Albido-cinerea ; alee anticce fusco subconspersa, lineisfmcis, 

 interiore valde denticulata, exteriore perobliqua versus costam 

 arcuata, submanjindli recta intus diffusa, reniformi fusca 

 pvnetiformi; postica lineis duabus indistinctis dennticulatis 

 fuscescentibus. 



Male. Whitish cinereous, a little darker on the under side. 

 Fore wings very minutely speckled with brown ; lines brown ; inte- 

 rior hue much denticulated ; exterior line very oblique, forming an 



