LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1049 



Male. Ferruginous. Head and thorax with many hoary 

 hairs. Fore wings hoary, ferruginous, with brown spots at the base, 

 and with a ferruginous brown -bordered angular oblique band at one- 

 third of the length ; beyond this there are two oblique zigzag pale 

 brown slender bands, one beyond the middle, the other near the ex- 

 terior border, which is ferruginous with brown spots. Hind wings 

 hoary along the costa and along the exterior border, which is like 

 that of the fore wings. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



Kio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



4. Aneurocampa melanostigma. 



Foem. Cervina ; antenna fulvce ; alee anticce ex parte testacece, 

 fasciis tribus obscurioribus undulosis vix obliquis maculaque 

 parva discali nigra ; posticce fascia pallida undulosa sub- 

 marginali. 



Female. — Fawn-colour. Antennas tawny. Fore wings partly 

 testaceous, with three slender undulating hardly oblique darker 

 bands, which have paler margins, and with a small transverse discal 

 black spot between the first and second bands. Hind wings with a 

 single pale undulating submarginal band. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus 39. PHALERA. 



Corpus sat validum. Proboscis capitis latitudine paullo bre- 

 vier. Palpi breves, porrecti, piloci, caput non superantes ; articu- 

 lus 3us minimus. Antennae thorace multo longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcari- 

 bus quatuor longis. Alae sat latae et longae ; anticae apud costam 

 rectse, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore obliquo etsubdenticulato ; 

 posticae apud marginem integrae. Mas. — Antennae subpectinatae. 

 Foem. — Antennae simplices. 



Bombyx, p., Linn. ; Fabr. ; Gmel. ; Oliv. ; Haw. ; God. 



Pygaera, p., Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. 



Pygaera, Steph. ; Boisd. ; Duponch. 



<Sericaria, p., Latr, Fam. Nat. 474. « 



Laria, p., Schr. 



Melalophae, p., H'ubn. 



Acrosema, Meig. Eur. Schmett. iii. 24. 



Phalera^ Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 146; Herr.-Schceff. ; Steph. Cat. 



Brit. Lep. 

 'Hammatophora, Westw. fy Humph. 



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