I L LUSTRATIONS 



TYPE SPECIMENS 



LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 



TOUTRICID^. 



TERAS, TV, 

 Teras sulbnivana. (Plate LXI. fig. 3.) 



Penthina subnivana, Walk. Cat. Lep. Set. xxyiii. pp. 376, 377. 



Teras deflectana, Bob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 283, pi. vii. fig. 71; Zeller, Verh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, 

 XXV. p. 211, 



Palpi white above, reddish brown beneath, projecting scarcely the length of. the head 

 beyond it ; the short apical joint obtuse, exposed : head and thorax white. Fore wings — 

 with the costa considerably arched towards the base, emarginate beyond the middle, the apex 

 not produced — white, with a few tufts of raised white scales before the middle and some few 

 pale ferruginous spots and streaklets beyond the middle ; a conspicuous triangular ferru- 

 ginous costal patch, in which the white ground-colour is more or less visible on its upper edge 

 internally, contains some minute dots of raised black scales ; the apical margin and anal angle 

 are clouded and spotted with pale ferruginous ; and there are one or two minute streaks or 

 spots of the same colour near the base of the costa : cilia dusky grey, tinged with ferruginous. 

 Hind wings cinereous grey, with a slender pale ochreous line at the base of the cilia. 

 Type c? . Expanse of wings 16 millims. 



Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. Robinson gives Pennsylvania as its 

 locality. 



Zeller (Verh. z.-b, Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 211) points out that Teras deflectana, Rob., is nearly 

 allied to the European Teras boscana. The same difi'erences which he notices are to be 



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