LF.PJDOPTERA BETSBOCBBA. 1 197 



Phalama senatoria, Abbot and Smith, Nat. Ilist. I a p. Ins. GeorgU i 



• ii. 1 13, pi. 57. 



\nisota senatoria, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 193, 1979. 



jeorgia. 



U 



South America. 



Group 1. 



4. Dryocampa rubicunda. 



Foam. Flava ; palpi pedesque rosei ; antenncc basi ro$ea :; aid 

 {' apud margines rosea. 



Bombyx rubicunda, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 429, 69. 



Female. Yellow. Palpi and legs mostly rose-colour. An- 

 tennae rose-colour at the base. Fore wings of a delicate bright 

 irose-colour about the base and on the costa, and along the exterior 

 border. Hind wings rose-colour along the costa and along the apical 

 |part of the interior border. Length of the body 7—8 lines; of the 

 Swings 22 — 24 lines. 



Var. (3. Hind wings with a broad pale marginal rose-coloured 

 „ r and extending from near the tip of the costa to half the length of 

 the interior border. 



•a, b. Brazil. 



Group 2. 



Fcem. Corpus dense lanuginosum. Antenna graciles, snbser- 

 ratae, thorace vix longiores. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. 

 Pedes tarsis longe pilosis, apice fasciculatis. Ala* anguste, sub- 

 pilosa?, semihyalinae ; anticffi apud costam vix convexa 1 , apice rotuii- 

 datae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Female. Body thickly clothed with lanuginose hairs. An- 

 tennae slender, minutely se'rrated, hardly longer than the thorax. 

 Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. Tarsi 

 clothed with long hairs, their tips tufted. Wings narrow, slightly 

 hairy, semihyaline. Fore wings more thickly hairy towards the 

 'base, very slightly convex along the costa, rounded at the tips, 

 extremely oblique along the exterior border, very much longer than 

 the hind wings; second inferior vein full twice further from the 

 third than from the first ; third as far from the second as from the 

 fourth. 



