﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1115 



Genus 28. DECELEA. 



Mas, Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi erecti, sat 

 validi ; articulus 3us linearis, compressus, apice rotundatus, 2o vix 

 brevior aut gracilior. Antennag serratse, corporis dimidio longiores. 

 Abdomen cristis altis, alas poslicas non superans. Pedes validi ; 

 tibiae poslicae calcaribus longis. Alae mediocres, uon denticulatae ; 

 anticae apud costam rectae, apice roiundatae, margine exteriore 

 obliquo subconvexo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis sbort. Palpi vertical, rather 

 stout ; third joint linear, compressed, rounded at the tip, not much 

 shorter or more slender than the second. Antennae serrated, a little 

 more than half the length of the body. Abdomen with high crests, 

 not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with 

 long spurs. Wings moderately broad, not denticulated. Fore 

 wing:s straight in front, rounded at the tips, slightly convex and 

 moderately oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Decelea indigna. 



Mas. Ferruginea, suhtus cinerea; abdomen ex parte cinereum, 

 cristis altis ferrugineis ; alee anticce nigro conspersa, guttis 

 basalihus nigris, fascia latissima nigricante-cinerea lineas in- 

 completas undulatas nigras maculamque reniformem albido 

 testaceam includente, linea marginali undulata pallide testacea, 

 lunulis marginalibus obscure fuscis ; posticce cinereo-fuscce, 

 fascia inargineque fuscis ^ linea angulosa albida^ lunulis mar- 

 ginalibus albido marginatis, 



Male. Ferruginous, cinereous beneath. Abdomen partly ci- 

 nereous ; crests ferruginous, very stout. Fore wings sprinkled with 

 black, with a few basal black dots, and with three or four incom- 

 plete undulating black lines, which are enclosed in a very broad 

 blackish cinereous band; the latter also includes the whitish testa- 

 ceous reniform spot ; submarginal line undulating, pale testaceous ; 

 marginal lunules dark brown. Hind wings cinereous-brown ; a 

 band and the border brown, the latter including a whitish zigzag 

 line ; marginal lunules dark brown, with whitish borders. Length 

 of the body 6 — 6i lines; of the wings 14 — 15 lines. 



a, b, St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



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