LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1151 



Country unknown. 



13. LlMACODES SEMIFASCIA. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; abdomen et alee posticce fulva ; alee anticce 

 fascia obliqua argentea antice abbreviata extus indentata. 



Male. Ferruginous. Abdomen and hind wings tawny. Fore 

 wings with a silvery white oblique band extending from before the 

 middle of the interior border to the disk, indented on its outer side. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Genus 28. NAROSA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi longi, 

 graciles, ascendentes, caput superantes; articulus 3us lanceolaius. 

 Antennae simplices, graciles, thorace multo longiores. Pedes gra- 

 ciles ; tibiae tarsique late ciliata ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longiusculis. Alae latae, breviusculae ; anticae late ciliatag, apud 

 costam convexae, apice rotundatae. 



Male. Resembles the Pyralites. Body slender. Proboscis 

 not visible. Palpi long, slender, ascending, extending beyond the 

 head; third joint lanceolate, about one-fourth of the length of the 

 second. Antennae simple, slender, much longer than the thorax. 

 Abdomen not extending so far as the hind wings. Legs slender ; 

 tibiae and tarsi deeply ciliated; hind tibiae with four rather long 

 spurs. Wings broad, rather short. Fore wings convex in front, 

 rounded at the tips, rather deeply ciliated ; interior angle rounded ; 

 subcostal vein emitting two branches in front, forked near its tip ; 

 two superior veins ; discal areolet intersected by a secondary vein ; 

 first and second inferior veins nearly contiguous at the base; third 

 rather further from the fourth than from the second. 



1. Narosa conspersa. 



Mas. Albido-testacea ; thorax lituris nonnullis ochraceo-ferrugi- 

 neis ; alee anticce fasciis ochraceo-ferrugineis ex parte fusco 

 conspersis. 



Male. Whitish testaceous. Thorax with some orange-ferru- 

 ginous marks. Wings shining ; veins beneath with shining scales. 

 Fore wings with seven or eight incomplete orange-ferruginous bands, 

 some of them with brown speckles. Length of the body 3J — 4 

 lines ; of the wings 8 — 9 lines. 



