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LEPIDOPTERA HETEBOCERA. 821 



Genus 31. PENORA. 



Mas. Corpus gracillimum. Proboscis brevissiina. Palpi 

 porrecti, graciles, nudi, longiusculi, caput superantes ; articulus 2us 

 lo duplo longior ; 3us lanceolatus, lo brevior. Antennae late pec- 

 tinatae, corporis dimidio paullo longiores. Pedes gracillimi, lon- 

 giusculi, fere nudi; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus mediocriter 

 longis. Alae latae ; posticae abdomen fere superantes. 



Male. Body very slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi por- 

 rect, slender, bare, rather long, extending some distance beyond 

 the head; second joint about twice the length of the first; third 

 lanceolate, shorter than the first. Antennae deeply pectinated, 

 rather more than half the length of the body. Abdomen hardly ex- 

 tending so far as the hind wings. Legs very slender, rather long, 

 almost bare ; hind tibiae with two moderately long spurs. Wings 

 broad. Fore wings slightly convex along the costa, rounded at the 

 tips ; second inferior vein about thrice further from the third than 

 from the first ; third much further from the fourth than from the 

 second; four inferior veins ; first, second and fourth simple ; second 

 convex, touching in its bend the hind fork of the third, which fork 

 forms two branches near the tip of the wing. 



South America. 



1. Penora remota. 



Mas. Alba ; alee semihyalince, rarissime pilosce, venis albis. 



Male. White. Body and legs testaceous, with white tomen- 

 tum. Wings semihyaline, very thinly pilose; veins white. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Wood and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



2. Penora festiva. 



Mas. Albida ; caputs palpi et thorax anticus testacea ; antenna 

 latissime pectinata ; abdomen vitta dorsali fusca; pedes ante- 

 riores intus fusci ; alee semihyalince, rarissime pilosce, venis 

 fuscis. 



Phalaena festiva, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 112, pi. 71, f. C. 

 Liparis spectra, Hubn. Lep. iii. Phalcence 2. Verce 2. Hypogymnce 

 A. subsquammatce 1, f. I — 4. Verz. Schmett. 158, 1647. 



