﻿LEPIDOPTERA. HETEROCERA. 995 



Genus 6. TIAUSPA. 



Corpus gracile. Caput fasciculo erecto. Proboscis mediocriter 

 longa. Palpi longi, corapressi, pilosi, sat graciles, caput superantes ; 

 articulus 3us linearis, 2o vix brevier. Antennae simplices, corporis 

 dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes 

 graciles; tibiae posticaB calcaribus longissimis. Alte mediocriter 

 latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice subrectangulatae, margine 

 exteriore convexo subobliquo. 



Body slender. Head with an erect tuft. Proboscis moderately 

 long. Palpi vertical, long, compressed, pilose, rather slender, 

 ascending above the head ; third joint linear, nearly as long as the 

 second. Antennse simple, more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; 

 hind tibias with very long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore 

 wings straight along the costa, almost rectangular at the tips, con- 

 vex and slightly oblique along the exterior border. 



1. TiAUSPA HORMOS. 



Pallide fusca ; alee anticce cinerece^ fascia lata ante apicali obscure 

 fusca strigaque postica media obliqua guttulari alba ; posticce 

 macula discali marginibusque obscurioribus. 



Hypsoropha Hormos (Noctua genuina, Euphais degener), Hubn. 



Samml. Exot, Schmett. i. 10, 14, f. 27, 28 ; Verz. Schmett. 



249, 2468. 

 Monogona Hormos, Guen, Noct. ii. 403, 1270. 



Georgia? Florida? 



Var. ? Cinerea ; thorax vix rufescente-cinereus ; alee anticce 

 rufescentes^ nigro conspersce, apud margines cinereo-rufescentes, 

 striga brevi obliqua postica e guttis tribus albis ; posticce 

 cupreo-cinerecE. Var. — Alee anticce cinerece, ferrugineo sub- 

 varicBj strigis exterioribus nigris, 



Var.P Cinereous. Thorax with a slight reddish tinge. Fore 

 wings reddish, speckled with black, with a cinereous tinge in front and 

 behind, with a short oblique streak resting on the interior border, 

 and composed of three white dots. Hind wings with a cupreous 

 tinge. Var. — Fore wings cinereous, here and there slightly ferrugi- 



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