﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1295 



interlined with glaucous-white ; under side wiih the slight middle 

 hand accompanied by a whitish spot near the interior border. 

 Length of the body 1 1 — 13 lines ; of the wings 28 — 30 lines. 



a — c. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 2. SERICIA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi longi, sub- 

 erecti ; articulus 2us validus, subarcuatus, subtus pilosus ; 3us 

 gracilis, linearis, apice obtusus, 2i dimidio multo longior. Antennae 

 graciles, simplices, corporis dimidio valde longiores. Abdomen alas 

 posticas non superaiis; segmenta lo ad 3um fasciculata. Pedes 

 longi, validi, pilosi; tibiag posticae calcaribus longissimis. Alee latae, 

 valde denticulatae ; anticse apice rectangulatae, margine exteriore 

 subobliquo subconvexo. 



Sericia, Guen. Noct. iii. 172. 



Body stout. Proboscis rather long. Palpi long, nearly ver- 

 tical ; second joint stout, somewhat curved, pilose beneath ; third 

 slender, linear, obtuse at the tip, much more than half the lentjth 

 of the second. Antennae slender, simple, very much more than 

 half the length of the body. Abdomen extending as far as the 

 hind wings ; first, second and third segments tufted* Legs long, 

 stout, pilose; hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings broad, much 

 denticulated. Fore wings curved towards the tip of the costa, 

 rectangular at the tips, slightly oblique and convex along the 

 exterior border. 



South America. 



1. Sericia poecila. 



Rubido-fiisca ; palpi fusci^ flavo bilineati ; alee velatince, nigro- 

 fusco et cervino nebidosce, ccerulescente-alho ex parte con- 

 spersct, fascia siibmarginali undulato angulosa, spatio costali 

 subapicali nigro-fusco, lunulis submarginalibus lineaque mar- 

 ginali duplicata nigris ; anticce lituris plurimis, lunula 

 atomaria alba ; posticce lineis obscurioribus et pallidioribus 

 alternis parallelis ; tarsi flavescente cincti. 



Sericia pcecila, Guen, Noct. iii. 174, 1565. 



Para. 



