﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1243 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi verti- 

 cal, rather long ; second joint hardly curved, pilose beneath ; third 

 slightly broader towards the tip, much more slender, but very little 

 shorter than the second. Antennae minutely setose, much more 

 than half the length of the body. Abdomen not extending so far 

 as the hind wings. Legs hardly stout ; hind tibiae with long spurs. . 

 Wings rather broad, not long and not denticulated. Fore wings 

 slightly curved towards the lip of the costa, nearly rectangular at 

 the tips, slightly oblique along the exterior border. 



Mexico. 



1. Pegs IN A mextcana. 



Cervina ; thorax fascia postica alba ; abdomen fuscum ; alee 

 anticcB fuscce, vitta media alba, spatio subcostali inleriore cer^ 

 vino maculas discales lineas transversas undulatas fasciamque 

 includente^ fascia exteriore cervina ,- posticce lineis transversis 

 denticulatis approximatis cervinis, fascia apicali alba nigro 

 tripunctata, 



Peosina mexicana, Guen, Nod, iii. 132, 1508. 



Mexico. 



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

 c. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson s collection. 



West Indies. 



2. Peosina Numeria. 



FvLSca^ subtus albida ; alee lunulis submarginalibus nigris cervino 

 marginatis ; anticce purpurascente suffusce, viridi consperscB, 

 lineis transversis undulatis obscurioribus, fascia diffusa 

 albido-cervina, fascia submarginali indistincta nigro sig- 

 nata ; posticce plaga transversa apicali alba, 



Phalaena (Noctua) Numeria, Drury^ Ins. i. 48, pi. 23, f. 5. 

 Noctua Numeria, Westw. Drury^ i. 44, pi. 23, f. 5. 

 Peosina Numeria, Guen, Noct. iii. 132, 1507. 



This species hardly belongs to the genus Peosina^ and perhaps 

 should be removed from the Erebidce, 



Jamaica. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



