1156 CATALOGUE OF 



blackish discal dot, with a brown middle stripe, and with an exte- 

 rior pair of slender undulating brown bands. Length of the body 6 

 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



5. Pamea transiens. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; alee antica falcatce, fascia obliqua fusca 

 extus fulva, alteraque exteriore gracitlima angulosa fulva, 

 margins exteriore undulato ; postica? apud marginem interio- 

 rem albidce fusco maculata?. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Fore wings falcate, with an oblique 

 brown band at a little beyond the middle ; the outer side of this 

 band is tawny, and there is an indistinct zigzag very slender tawny 

 band between it and the exterior border, which is undulating; inte- 

 rior angle somewhat rounded ; interior border almost straight. Hind 

 wings fawn-colour; interior border whitish, with brown spots. 

 Length of the body 4J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



New South Wales. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus 32. NIACA. 



Mas. Corpus gracillimum, fere nudum. Proboscis non con- 

 spicua. Palpi brevissimi." Antennae mediocriter pectinatae, thoracis 

 longitudine. Pedes graciles ; tibia? posticae calcaribus nullis. Alae 

 lata? ; antica? apud costam convexae, apice rotundatae, margine exte- 

 riore vix obliquo ; posticae abdomen superantes. 



Male. Body very slender, almost bare. Proboscis obsolete. 

 Palpi very short. Antennae moderately pectinated, as long as the 

 thorax. Abdomen not extending so far as the hind wings. Legs 

 slender ; hind tibiae without spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings 

 convex along the costa, rounded at the tips, hardly oblique along 

 the exterior border; first and second inferior veins nearly contiguous 

 at the base ; third about twice further from the fourth than from 

 the second. 



1. Niaca cubvimargo. 



Mas. Fusca ; antenna testacea? ; pedes antici nigri ; alee cervina, 

 antica? supra fusca? lituris nonnullis nigricantibus* 



