968 CATALOGUE OF 



Oiketicus Boisduvalii? Weslw. Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond. (1854) 232, 

 pi. 37, f. 2. 



Male. Thickly clothed with tawny hairs. Antennas black. 

 Legs brown. Wings black, opaque, somewhat tawny at the base. 

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



a. ? 



Genus 16. NEMETA. 



Mas. Corpus robustuin, pilosum. Palpi distincti, breves, as- 

 cendentes, caput non superantes. Antennas usque ad apices medio- 

 criter pectinatae, thorace vix breviores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 triente superans. Pedes validi, ciliati ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 apicalibus longiusculis. Alae anticae valde angustae, apud costam 

 rectse, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo ; posticae tri- 

 gone, truncatae. 



Male. Allied to the Limacodidce. Body stout, pilose. Palpi 

 distinct, short, ascending, not extending beyond the head. An- 

 tennae moderately pectinated to the tips, nearly as long as the tho- 

 rax. Abdomen extending for full one-third of its length beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs stout, ciliated ; hind tibiae with rather long 

 apical spurs Fore wings very narrow, straight along the costa, 

 rounded at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior border ; 

 interior angle very obtuse ; two superior veins ; second short ; discal 

 areolet intersected by a distinct vein; second inferior vein as 

 far from the first as from the third ; third about thrice further from 

 the fourth than from the second; submedian and internal veins 

 slightly converging. Hind wings triangular, about half the length 

 of the fore wings, truncated and slightly excavated along the 

 exterior border. 



1. Nemeta bifacies. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; caput et palpi albida ; antenna nigra ; abdo- 

 men nigrum, apice subtus maculisque duabus dorsalibus tes- 

 taceis ; pedes fulvi, nigro varii ; alee anticce obscure fuscce 

 maculis fulvis nigro-cinctis, posticce subhyalince vittis duabus 

 latis nigris. 



Male. Ferruginous. Head and palpi mostly whitish. An- 

 tennae black. Abdomen black, testaceous at the tip beneath, and 

 with two transverse testaceous dorsal marks. Legs tawny, partly 

 clothed with black hairs, which prevail most on the hind pair. 



