﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1047 



South America. 



2. AlAMIS POLIOIDES. 



Cinerascen^ ; palporum articulus 2ics hirsutus ; ahdomen vix 

 depress U711 ; alee nigricante conspersce^ valde dentatce, ciliis 

 longis squamosis ; anticce lineis tnbus distinctis, interiore 

 rufescente vaga arcuata, media tenui nigra sinuata denticulata^ 

 submarginali pallida^ strigis marginalibus jiigris, macula 

 reniformi e pwicto nigro ; posticce lineis duabtis vagis sub- 

 rectis. 



Alarais Polioides, Guen. Noct, iii. 5, 1324. 



Chili. 



Africa. 



3. Alamis mendax. 



Mas. Fusca^ suhtus cinerea ; caput fasciculaium ; antennce va- 

 lidly serj'atcEi ciliatce ; abdomen nigro cristatum; pedes pilosis- 

 simi ; alee anticce fasciis undulatis obliquis, obscurioribus etpal- 

 lidioribus, apud costani nigro-fuscce, macula costali subapicali 

 nigricante fasciaque submarginali duplicata undulata con- 

 nexis, guttis lineaque submarginali denticulata nigris^ linea 

 marginali undulata albida, 



Male, Brown, stout, cinereous beneath. Head tufted between 

 the antennae. Antennas stout, very distinctly ciliated and serrated. 

 Abdomen with blackish crests. Legs very thickly pilose. Fore 

 wings with undulating oblique alternately darker and paler bands, 

 mostly dark brown along the costa, and with a blackish costal sub- 

 apical spot, which joins the double submarginal undulating band ; 

 the latter has some black dots along its outer side ; a submarginal 

 denticulate black line, and a marginal undulating whitish line ; 

 these lines also appear on the hind wings, in which the other marks 

 are indistinct, except the double almost straight submarginal brown 

 line. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From !Mr. Plant's collection. 



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