﻿1250 CATALOGUE OF 



Phalaena-Noctua Helima, Cram. Pap, Exot, iv. 43, pi. 309, f. D. 

 Sierra Leone. 



Genus 5. BRUJAS. 



Corpus plus minusve robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 

 longi, erecti ; articulus 2us plus minusve validus et subtus dense 

 pilosus ; 3us gracilis, subclavatus aut sublinearis, 2o valde brevior. 

 Antennae graciles, vix setosse, corporis dimidio multo longiores. 

 Pedes sat validi, pilosi ; tibias posticse calcaribus longis. Ala? latae, 

 margine exteriore subinlegro aut valde denticulato ; anticag apice 

 angulatae nonnunquam subfaluatse, margine exteriore plus minusve 

 obliquo ; posticae abdomen ssepissime superantes. 



Brujas, Guen. Nod. iii. 139. 



Blosyris, p., Hiibn. Yerz. Schmett. 273. 



Body more or less stout. Proboscis short. Palpi long, erect ; - 

 second joint more or less stout, more or less densely pilose beneath ; | 

 third slender, slightly or hardly siibclavate, much shorter than the 

 second, or hardly more than half its length. Antennae slender, 

 hardly setose, very much more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen very seldom extending so far as the hind wings. Legs 

 rather stout, moderately pilose ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings 

 broad, hardly or much denticulated along the exterior border. Fore 

 wings angular and sometimes indistinctly falcate at the tips ; exte- 

 rior slightly or moderately oblique. 



Mexico. 



1. Brujas infans. 



Nigricante-fusca ; alee snhdentatcB, versus marginem exterioreni 

 pallidiorem obscuriores, lineis tribus transversis undatis et 

 denticulatis umhraque media confusis, lunulis submarginalibus 

 bene determinatis ; anticce orbiculari punctiformi, reniformi 

 integra excisa. Mas. — Antennce sat ciliata, 



Brujas infans, Guen. Noct. iii. 141, 1523. 



Mexico. 



