LEPIDOPTERA HEEROCERA. 375 



Female. Purplish brown, mostly yellow beneath. Hind 

 borders of the abdominal segments whitish ; tip yellow. Fore 

 femora and fore tibiae with black tips. Wings with two irregular 

 oblique luteous bands ; the interior one occupying all the basal part 

 of the hind wings ; marginal line pale ; fringe whitish, brown at the 

 base. Fore wings irregularly luteous along most of the costa, and 

 with a luteous basal band ; orbicular and reniform marks blackish, 

 transversely oblong-subquadrate, mostly in the luteous part. Length 

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



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus 8. HYALEA. 



Corpus squamosum, nitens. Frons angusta, antice producta 

 bifida. Proboscis longa, gracilis. Palpi compressi, bicolores, 

 squamoso lseves ; articulus 3us am plus, securiformis. Palpi maxil- 

 lares conspicui, brevissimi, lineares, apice truncati. Antennae 

 pubescentes, subserratae. Abdomen attenuatum, conicum, subcom- 

 pressum, alas posticas superans. Pedes glabri, calcaribus inaequa- 

 libus. Alae concolores, bicolores, semihyalino flavse, nigro mar- 

 ginatae. 



Hyalea, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 206. 



Body squamous. Front narrow, elongate and slightly bifid. 

 Proboscis long, slender. Palpi compressed, squamous, smooth, of 

 two colours; third joint ample, securiform. Maxillary palpi distinct, 

 linear, very short, truncated at the tips. Antennae pubescent; joints 

 notched or triangular. Abdomen attenuated, conical, slightly com- 

 pressed, extending beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, with 

 unequal spurs. Wings semihyaline, yellow, with black borders. 



North America. 



1. Hyalea dividalis. 



Mas. Flava; alee ferruyineo marginatce, basi niyro punctatce ; 

 anticce fascia obliqua antemedia ferruyinea punctoque antico 

 medio nigro. 



Anania dividalis (Pyralis valgaris, Palpita nobilis), Geyer, Zutr. 



Samml. Exot. Schmett. 39, 390, f. 779, 780. 

 Hyalea dividalis, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 287, 162. 



United States. 



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