LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCERA. 1313 



Female. Fawn-colour. Antennae whitish straw-colour, much 

 longer and stouter than those of H. Myops. Thorax rosy towards the 

 abdomen. Abdomen dark brown, with white bands. Legs partly 

 | clothed with rosy hairs. Fore wings with a straight slender oblique 

 brown band by the whitish discal mark, and with two very diffuse 

 and indistinct whitish bands. Hind wings with the fringe mostly 

 white; an indistinct darker band before the middle; under side 

 with indistinct undulating whitish bands. Length of the body 9 

 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus 15. AGLIA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Palpi brevissimi. Proboscis non con- 

 spicua. Antennae thorace longiores. Pe'des sat graciles; tibiae 

 posticae calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Alae mediocriter 

 !;.latae, non longae; anticoe subacuminatse, apud costam vix convexae, 

 \ margine exteriore mediocriter obliquo. Mas. — Antennae latissime 

 , pectinatae ; rami aequales, graciles, ciliati, non duplicati. Abdomen 

 i sat gracile. Alae posticae abdomen longe superantes. Fcem. — 

 | (Antennae subserratae, subsetoste. Abdomen crassum. Alae posticae 

 i abdomen non superantes. 



i Aglia, Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. iii. 11. Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 152. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus, p., Linn. ; Gmel. Steph. III. Brit. Ent. 



Haust. ii. 36. 

 Satumia, p., Schr. 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Oliv. ; Esper. ; H'iihn. ; Haw. 



Body rather stout. Palpi very short. Antennae longer than 

 the thorax. Legs rather slender; hind tibiae with two minute 

 apical spurs. Wings moderately broad, not long. Fore wings 

 slightly acuminated, hardly convex along the costa, moderately 

 oblique along the exterior border ; second inferior vein very near 

 the first, but about four times further from the third. Male. — 

 Antennae very deeply pectinated ; branches of equal length, slender, 



/ciliated, not in pairs. Abdomen rather slender, extending to hardly 

 j beyond two-thirds of the breadth of the hiud wings. Female. — 



' Antennae minutely serrated and setose. Abdomen thick, extending 

 as far as the hind wings. 



