﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA, 1096 



Male, Brown, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi blackisli brown, 

 much recurved. Fore tarsi with blackish bands. Abdomen cine- 

 reous-brown. Fore wings ferruginous, speckled with glaucous- 

 green, with several darker transverse undulating lines, with a broad 

 band, which is abbreviated, fawn-coloured and partly whitish above, 

 complete and wholly white beneath ; a row of elongated blackish 

 submarginal dots. Hind wings cupreous-brown, with white tips. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Valley of the Amazon. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus 11. HYPOGRAMMA. 



Corpus robustura. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi arcuati, as- 

 cendentes ; articulus 2us validus ; 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio non 

 brevior. Antennae longse, graciles, simplices. Abdomen alas pos- 

 ticas paullo superans. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 longis. Alae longiusculae, non latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, 

 apice subangulatae, margine exteriore subconvexo valde obliquo ; 

 posticae apud angulum interiorem subexcavalae. 



Hypogramma, Guen, NocL iii. 34. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi curved, verti- 

 cal ; second joint stout ; third lanceolate, full half the length of the 

 second. Antennae long, slender, simple, much more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs rather stout; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings 

 rather long, not broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, some- 

 what angular at the tips, very slightly convex and very oblique 

 along the exterior border. Hind wings slightly excavated by the 

 interior angle. 



North America. 



1. Hypogramma Andromede. 



Alho'Cinerea ; alee anticce lineis transversis indeterminatis mar- 

 gineque interiore nigricantibus^ macula reniformi e annulo 

 nigricante, ciliis cinereo nigroque variis ; posticce nigrce^ ma- 

 cula angusta alba, 



Hypogramma Andromede, Guen, NocL iii. 36, 1368. 



Georgia. 



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