LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1453 



11. Megasoma pardale. 



Masetfoem. Cervinum ; palpi cine rei ; antenna ramis nigricanti- 

 bus ; thorax vitta dorsali cinerea ; alee anticce cinereo guttato- 

 fasciata. Mas. — Abdomen et aUc posticce apud marginem in- 

 teriorem albido-iestacece. 



Male and female. Fawn-colour. Palpi cinereous. Antennae 

 with blackish brauches. Thorax with a slight cinereous tinge and 

 with a narrow cinereous dorsal stripe. Fore wings with cinereous 

 'flecks, which form numerous imperfect slender undulating oblique 

 bands. Hind wings paler and without bands towards the interior 

 border. Male. — Paler than the female. Abdomen whitish testa- 

 ceous. Hind wings whitish testaceous towards the interior border. 

 Length of the body 8 — 14 lines; of the wings 16 — 28 lines. 



», b. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



Genus 17. LEBEDA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum aut crassum. Proboscis non con- 

 'spicua. Palpi validi, porrecti, pilosi, caput paullo superantes ; arti- 

 'oulus 3us conicus. Antennae late pectinatae, thorace vix breviores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae pos- 

 dc33 calcaribus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alae angustae ; antica 1 

 ipud costam rectae, apice rotuudatae, margine exteriore subconvexo 

 perobliquo. Fcem. — Antennae mediocriier pectinatae. 



Male. Body robust or thick. Proboscis not visible. Palpi 

 stout, porrect, pilose, extending a little beyond the head; third joint 

 conical. Antennae deeply pectinated, almost as long as the thorax. 

 Abdomen extending for 'half its length beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout; hind tibiae with two very minuie apical spurs. Wings 

 narrow. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, very 

 slightly convex and very oblique along the exterior border ; second 

 interior vein more than four times further from the third than from 

 the first, to which it is contiguous. Female. — Antenna? moderately 

 [pectinated. 



Group 1. 

 Mas. Corpus robustum. Palpi breves, validi, pilosi, caput 

 rix superantes. Antennae latissime pectinatae, thoracis longitudiue. 



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