LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1045 



rior border; tips and exterior margin bordered with brown and 

 ciliated with red ; this brown border is dilated by the interior angle, 

 and is accompanied with a brown parallel streak ; a slight brownish 

 mark at the tip of the discal areolet. Length of the body 9 lines ; 

 of the wings 29 lines. 



a. Himalaya Mountains. From Capt. Parry's collection. 



Genus 36. HYLEORA. 



Corpus robustum. Caput fasciculis duobus porrectis. Probos- 

 cis non conspicua. Palpi breves, porrecti, pilosi, caput non supe- 

 rantes ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae thorace valde longiores. 

 Thorax cristatus. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longiusculis. Ala? longae, sat latae ; anticae apud costam vix con- 

 vexae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore denticulato et valde 

 obliquo ; posticae margine exteriore denticulato. Mas. — Antennas 

 late pectinatae. Abdomen alas posticas dimidio superans. Fcem. — 

 — Antennae simplices. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. 



Hyleora, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. iv. 



Body stout. Head with a porrect tuft on each side. Proboscis 

 not visible. Palpi short, pilose, porrect, not extending beyond the 

 head ; third joint very small. Antennae very much longer than the 

 thorax. Thorax crested. Legs stout; femora and tibiae densely 

 pilose; hind tibiae with four rather long spurs. Wings long, mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings hardly convex in front, rounded at the 

 tips, notched and extremely oblique along the exterior border ; inte- 

 rior angle very obtuse; discal areolet intersected by a secondary 

 vein ; three inferior veins ; second about twice further from the 

 third than from the first. Hind wings notched along the exterior 

 border. Male. — Antennae deeply pectinated. Abdomen extending 

 for half its length beyond the hind wings. Female. — Antennae 

 simple. Abdomen extending for one-fourth of its length beyond the 

 hind wings. 



1. Hyleora Eucalypti. 



Nigricans ; caput et thorax albido varia, hie foeminae fulvus ; 

 antenna fulvce; abdomen fulvum, apice nigricans; alee an- 

 ticce striga albida ; posticce oasifulvce. 



I Hyleora Eucalypti, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. iv. 217. 

 Blackish. Head and thorax with several whitish hairs. An- 

 tennae tawny. Abdomen tawny, blackish at the tip. Fore wings 



