I.EPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. 1059 



7. ICHTHYURA INCLUSA. 



Cinereo-ferruginea ; caput thoracisqae discus saturate fusca ; alee 

 anticce guttis exterioribus nigris lineisque tribus transcersis 

 albidis, 2a postice furcata ; posticte discali subundulosa 

 albida. 



Phalaena anastomosis, Smith fy Abbot, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. 



ii. 143, pi. 72. 

 Ichtbyura inclusa, Hubn. Zuytr. 



Ferruginous, here and there more or less cinereous. Head 

 above and disk of the thorax deep dark brown. Fore wings with a 

 reddish tinge about the tips, with a row black dots near the exterior 

 border, and with three transverse whitish lines, the middle one 

 forked in the disk hind ward. 



a — d. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Genus 42. COLOCASIA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis capitis latitudine non brevior. 

 Palpi validi, pilosi, porrecti, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us 

 minutus obtusus. Antennae thorace paullo longiores. Thorax cris- 

 tatus. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes pilosi, sat 

 validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus apicalibus mediocriter 

 longis. Alee mediocriter longs lataeque ; antica? apud costam sub- 

 rectae, apice rotundatee, margine interiore obliquo integro, interiore 

 non fasciculato. Mas. — Antennas mediocriter pectinatse. Fcem. — 

 Antenna? subserratae. 



Colocasia, Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. ; Hubn. ; God. 

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

 Phalaena, p., Wilkes. 

 I Demas, Steph. 

 Oregyia, p., Meig, 

 Orgya, p., Boisd. 



Body stout. Proboscis as long as the breadth of the head. 

 Palpi stout, porrect, pilose, extending as far as the head ; third 

 joint minute, obtuse. Antennas a little longer than the thorax. 

 Thorax crested. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. 

 Legs pilose, moderately stout; hind tibiae with two moderately long 

 apical spurs. Wings moderately long and broad. Fore wings 

 almost straight in front, rounded at the tips, oblique and entire 

 along the exterior border; interior angle rounded; interior border 



