LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 1343 



Male. Body moderately slender. Proboscis not visible. 

 Palpi short, pilose, porrect, not extending: beyond the head. An- 

 tennae deeply pectinated, simple and setose towards the tips, very 

 little longer than the thorax ; one brand) in each pair more slender, 

 but almost as long as the other, which is ciliated. Legs stout; hind 

 tibia? with two short apical spurs. Wings without ocelli. Fore 

 wings falcate, rather narrow, convex towards the tip of the costa, 

 rounded at the tips, concave and very oblique along the exterior 

 border ; second interior vein as far from the first as from the third. 

 Hind wings broad, denticulated along the exterior border, extend- 

 ing for one-third of their breadth beyond the abdomen. 



1. MlCRAGONE AGATHVLLA. 



Aloe anticce subfalcatce, posticce denticulatce ; supra pallide rufo- 

 fidvce, in medio ut videtur exocellatce. 



Saturnia Agathylla, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. 1849, 58, 28. 



" Described from an injured specimen. Fore wings subfalcate. 

 Hind wings denticulated along the outer margin, the tooth at the 

 extremity of the middle branch of the median vein being the most 

 acute. Palpi quite distinct, scarcely extending beyond the hairs of 

 the face. Antennas furnished each with eighty rays ; basal joint 

 clothed beneath with a thick mass of hairs; each of the twenty suc- 

 ceeding joints emitting four rays, one close at the base and one 

 close at the apex on each side, the inside of the two on each side 

 furnished with tine hairs, the tips of which come in contact with 

 each other; thirteen terminal joints destitute of rays." — Westw. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Genus 29. CYRTOGONE. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi breves, validi, 

 porrecti, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us conicus, minimus. An- 

 tennas mediocriter pectinate, apices versus simplices, tborace paullo 

 breviores, ramis validis non duplicatis. Pedes validi. Alae longius- 

 culae, non lata? nee ocellatae; anticae subfalcatae, apice obtusa?, costa 

 apicem versus convexa, margine exteriore dentato perobliquo ; pos- 

 ticae abdomen paullo superantes, margine exteriore denticulato. 



Saturnia, p., Westw. 



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