﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1367 



Male, Very pale fawn-coloiir, whitish testaceous beneath. 

 Thorax and fore wings speckled with black. Fore wings with three 

 blackish transverse lines, which are more or less distinctly marked, 

 and are occasionally in part double; first line straight, hardly ob- 

 lique, with a whitish exterior border; second less denticulated than 

 the third ; reniform mark blackish, very narrow between the first and 

 second lines ; subraarginal line whitish, much denticulated ; a row 

 of black marginal points; underside with a single exterior band. 

 Hind wings rather paler than the fore wings, with a broad brown 

 border, which is incomplete towards the interior angle. Length of 

 the body 7 — 8 lines; of the wings 18 — 20 lines. 



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

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



Genus 11. OPHISMA. 



Corpus robustum. Frons fasciculata. Proboscis valida, sat 

 longa. Palpi ascendentes, validi, pilosi ; articulus 3us conicus, 

 brevissimus. Antennae simplices, graciles, corporis dimidio lon- 

 giores. Thorax Isevis, dense pilosus. Abdomen conicum. Pedes 

 robusti, pilosi ; tibise posticse calcaribus longis. Alae latae ; anticae 

 acutae, subfalcatae, apud costam rectae, margine exteriore recto sat 

 obliquo. 



Dysgonia, p., et Platyja, p., Hiibn. Verz. Schmelt. 268, 269. 

 Ophisma, Guen, Noct, iii. 236. 



Body stout. Head with a frontal tuft. Proboscis robust, mo» 

 derately long. Palpi ascending, stout, pilose; third joint conical, 

 not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 simple, slender, somewhat more than balf the length of the body. 

 Thorax smooth, thickly clothed. Abdomen conical, hardly ex- 

 tending so far as the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose; hind tibiae 

 witb long spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings acute, subfalcate, 

 straight along the costa, straight and rather oblique along the exte- 

 rior border. 



