1022 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 22. PEROMA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Caput et thorax piiosa. Proboscis 

 capitis latitudine aequalis. Palpi porrecti, sat graciles, caput paullo 

 superantes ; articulus 2us lo paullo longior ; 3us minimus. An- 

 tennae corpore paullo breviores, dimidio basali mediocriter pectinate?, 

 apices versus simplices. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes 

 sat graciles ; femora et tibiae piiosa ; tibiae posticae calcaribus qua- 

 tuor sat longis. Alae sat angustae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice 

 angulatae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Male. Body slender. Head and thorax pilose. Proboscis 

 distinct, not shorter than the breadth of the head. Palpi porrect, 

 rather slender, extending some little distance beyond the head ; 

 second joint a little longer than the rirst ; third very minute. An- 

 tennae about three-fourths of the length of the body, moderately 

 pectinated to nearly half the length, simple from thence to the tips. 

 Abdomen extending for one-third of its fength beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs rather slender ; femora and tibiae pilose; hind tibiae 

 with four moderately long spurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore 

 wings straight along the costa, nearly rectangular at the tips, very 

 oblique along the hinder two-thirds of the length of the exterior 

 border; interior border with a semi-elliptical excavation at its end ; 

 three inferior veins ; second about four times further from the third 

 than from the first. 



1. Peroma anomala. 



Mas. Alba; palpi apice fusci ; thorax testaceo suffusus ; abdo- 

 men et tarsi testacea ; alee anticoe e guttis fuscis bifasciatce, 

 marginibus subtestaceis. 



Male. White. Palpi with brownish tips. Antennae with 

 brownish branches. Thorax with a slight testaceous tinge. Abdo- 

 men and tarsi testaceous. Fore wings with a slight testaceous 

 tinge about the borders, and with two bands of black dots, near and 

 almost parallel to the exterior border. Length of the body 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 15 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Frv's collection. 



Genus 23. HETEROCAMPA. 

 Div.I. 





Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi mediocriter longi, 

 oblique ascendentes; articulus 2us lo multo longior; 3us minimus. 



