﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1281 



Genus 11. LATEBBARIA. 



Corpus vix crassum. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi longi, 

 erecd; articulus 2us validus, subtus pilosus; 3us linearis, sat gra- 

 cilis, vix arcuatus, 3o perpaullo brevior. Antennae corpore sat bre- 

 viores. Pedes validi, longiusculi ; tibite posticae calcaribiis longis. 

 Alae latae, non longae, plus minusve dentioulatae ; anticae apud cos- 

 tam fere reciae, apice vix angulatae, margine exteriore subobliquo et 

 subconvexo; posticae abdomen plus minusve superantes. Mas, — 

 Antennae subcrenulatae, subciliatae. 



Latebraria, Guen, Noct. iii. 159. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 long, erect; second joint stout, pilose beneath; third linear, some- 

 what slender, hardly curved, very little shorter than the second. 

 Antennae somewhat shorter than the body. Legs stout, rather long ; 

 hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings broad, not long, more or less 

 denticulated. Fore wings almost straight along the costa, hardly 

 angular at the tips, slightly oblique and convex along the exterior 

 border. Male. — Antennae very slightly crenulated and ciliated. 



Mexico. 



1. Latebraria errans. 



Mas et foem. Fusca, subtus cervina ; alee lineis transversis undu- 

 latis aut angulosis nigricantibuSy maculis duabus magnis 

 nigris lineaque exteriore connexis, fascia submarginali tenui 

 angulosa nigricante, lunulis submarginalibus nigris remotis, 

 subtus testaceo fasciatce ; anticce orbiculari et reniformi sub- 

 obsoletis. 



Male and female. Brown, fawn-colour beneath. Head with 

 pale hairs on the hind side. Wings with transverse undulating or 

 zigzag blackish lines, the exterior one more distinct than the olhers, 

 and accompanied on the inner side by two large black spots; sub- 

 marginal band slight, forming a zigzag blackish line; submarginal 

 lunules black, remote from each other; under side with a broad 

 middle brown band, which is bordered exteriorly by a pale testa- 

 ceous band. Fore wings with the orbicular and renifonn spots 

 almost obsolete ; under side with a testaceous mark near the tip of 

 the cosia. Hind wings beneath with a slight undulating brown 

 band, with a brown lunule nearer the base, and with a macular 



