LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1113 



Body stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi stout, very pilose, 

 slightly ascending, extending rather beyond the head. Antennae a 

 little longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending as far as the 

 hind wings. Legs stout, densely pilose ; hind tibiae with very 

 minute apical spurs. Wings rather short and broad, densely 

 clothed. Fore wings nearly straight in front, rounded at the tips, 

 slightly convex but not oblique along the exterior border; interior 

 angle rounded ; first and second inferior veins approximate at the 

 base ; third rather nearer to the second than to the fourth. Male, — 

 Antennae deeply pectinated to a little beyond half the length, 

 slightly pectinated from thence to the tips. Female. — Antennae 

 simple. 



1. COSUMA EUGOSA. 



Mas. Flava, luteo varia ; antennce fuscce ; pectus anticce pedesque 

 antici ferruginea ; abdomen et alee posticce testacea ; alee 

 anticce fascia discoque ex parte fuscis. 



Male. Yellow, bere and there luteous. Palpi luteous, with 

 yellow tips. Antennae brown. Pectus in front, lore femora and 

 fore tibiae ferruginous. Abdomen and hind wings testaceous. 

 Fore wings more or less brown in front and on the fore part of the 

 disk, with a slender oblique ridged brownish band, which extends 

 across the middle, and with a yellow discal dot very near the outer 

 side of the band. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 

 13 lines. 



a — c. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Genus 8. SUSICA. 



Corpus vixrobustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi validi, 

 longi, porrecti, pilosi, caput longe superantes ; articulus 3us coni- 

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

 validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae sat latae, non 

 longae. Anticae apud costam subrectae, apice rotundatae, margine 

 exteriore subconvexo non obliquo, angulo exteriore rotundato. 

 Mas. — Antennae Jatae pectinatae, apice nudae. Fcem. — Antennae 

 simplices. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi stout, long, 

 pilose, porrect, extending far beyond the head; third joint conical, 

 not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Abdomen 

 extending as far as the hind wings. Legs pilose, moderately stout ; 

 hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings rather broad, not long. 



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