LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 993 



Female. Cinereous, with a slight tinge of fawn-colour ; under 

 side pale testaceous. Palpi black, cinereous towards the tips. Fore 

 wings flecked with brown, and traversed by a brownish oblique 

 band, which extends from beyond the middle of the costa to the 

 interior angle ; a row of brown dots along the exterior border. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Genus 6, CLAPHE. 



Mas. Corpus mediocriter robustura. Proboscis non conspicua. 

 Palpi pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus lus brevissimus ; 3us 

 conicus, 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae late pectinatae, apices versus 

 mediocriter pectinatae, thorace tnulto breviores. Abdomen alas pos- 

 ticas paullo superans. Pedes sat validi ; femora et tibiae longe 

 pilosa ; tibiae posticae calcaribus minutis apicalibus. Alae sat an- 

 gustae ; anticae sub fusiform es, apud costam vix convexae, apice 

 rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Male. Body moderately stout. Proboscis very short or obso- 

 lete. Palpi pilose, extending very little beyond the head ; first 

 joint very short; third conical, less than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae much shorter than the thorax, deeply pectinated 

 to half the length, moderately pectinated from thence to the tips. 

 Abdomen extending for one-fourth of its length beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs moderately stout ; femora and tibiae with long hairs ; 

 hind tibiae with minute apical spurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore 

 wings subfusiform, hardly convex along the costa, rounded at the 

 tips, very oblique along the exterior border, not angular between the 

 latter and the interior border; second inferior vein about four 

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

 from the fourth than from the second. 



1. Claphe guttivena. 



Mas. Candida; antennce ramis fulvis ; alee anticce e guttis nigris 

 trifasciatce, maculisque parvis costalibus et ex terioribus nigris ; 

 posticce macula parva fusea. 



Male. Pure white. Antennae with tawny branches. Fore 

 wings with small black spots on the costa and along the exterior 

 border, and with three very oblique bands of black dots on the veins. 

 Hind wings with a brown spot by the interior angle, and most 



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