LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1357 



and with a darker brown curved slightly undulating exterior band. 

 Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Group 7. 



Mas. Corpus sat validum. Palpi caput perpaullo superantes. 

 Antennae latissime pectinatae ; rami graciles, ciliati, non duplicati. 

 Alae latae ; anticae apud costam subconvexae, apice subrotundatae, 

 inargine exteriore recto mediocriter obliquo ; posticae abdomen per- 

 paullo superantes. 



Male. Body moderately stout. Palpi extending very little 

 beyond the head. Antennae very deeply pectinated ; branches 

 simple, slender, ciliated. Abdomen extending nearly as far as the 

 hind wings. Wings broad. Fore wings with the apical angle 

 somewhat rounded, slightly convex in front, straight and moderately 

 oblique along the exterior border ; second inferior vein full twice 

 further from the third than from the first. 



15. Dirphia Agis. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; caput fulvescens ; antenna nigro-fuscce ; 

 thorax fusco varius ; abdomen supra luteum fasciis interruptis 

 nigris ; alee antica fusco subnebulosce, vents fuscis, fasciis 

 duabus obliquis nigro-fuscis ; postica fasciis duabus repandis 

 fuscis. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus Agis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 49, pi. 30, 



f. F. 

 Bombyx Agis, Oliv. Enc. Meih. Ins. v. 38, 53. 

 Dirphia Agis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalana Sphingoides Echidna 

 Communiformes) 153, 1598. 



Surinam. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Head somewhat tawny. Antennae 

 blackish brown. Thorax partly brown. Abdomen above luteous, 

 with interrupted black bands. Legs brown. Fore wings slightly 

 clouded with pale brown, which hue forms two oblique very irregular 

 bands ; two narrow blackish brown bands converging towards the 

 interior border, their inner sides accompanied by a paler hue than 

 that of the wing elsewhere ; the first extending from the base of the 

 costa to one-third of the length of the interior border; the other ex- 

 tending from three-fourths of the length of the costa to beyond half 

 the length of the interior border ; veins brown. Hind wings with 



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