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CATALOGUE OF 



tips, very oblique along the exterior border ; interior border straight ; 

 three inferior veins ; second rather further from the third than from 

 the first. 



1. XULORA LIGNOSA. 



Mas. Viridi-fusca ; palpi et antenna fulva ; pectus et pedes tes- 



tacea ; abdomen luteum, subtus testaceum; alee anticce cervince, 



albo varii, nigro conspersm ; posticce albce^fusco marginata. 



Male, Greenish brown. Palpi and antenna tawny. Pectus 



and legs testaceous. Abdomen luteous, testaceous beneath. Fore 



wings fawn-colour, partly white in the disk and at the tips, and with 



some black flecks towards the base and about the exterior border ; 



under side paler. Hind wings white, brown along the borders; 



veins brown towards the borders. Length of the body 7* lines ; of 



the wings 17 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus 54. LAMNIS. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi breves, sat 

 graciles, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us conicus, acutus, 2o vix 

 brevior. Antenna; thorace vix breviores. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibia? 

 postica? calcaribus minutis apicalibus. AI33 sat late ; anticse apud 

 costam apicalem vix convexae, apice rotundate, margine exteriore 

 obliquo. Ife.— Antenna? late pectinate, dimidio apicali serrate. 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Fcem.— Antenna? sim- 

 plices. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. 



Body stout. Proboscis very short or obsolete. Palpi short 

 rather slender, not extending so far as the head; joints of nearly 

 equal length ; third acute-conical. Antenna? almost as long as the 

 thorax. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibia? with minute apical spurs. 

 Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa till 

 near the tips, where they are very slightly convex, rounded at the 

 tips, oblique along the exterior border; interior angle rounded; 

 second interior vein full twice further from the third than from the 

 first ; third a little further from the fourth than from the second 

 ^.--Antenna? deeply pectinated to half the length, serrated 

 from thence to the tips. Abdomen extending for one-fourth of its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Female.— Antenna? simple. Abdo- 

 men extending as far as the hind wings. 



