﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1513 



Closely allied to R. Archeda, but distinqfuislied by the first 

 band of the foi-e wings, which have no black dot by the interior 

 border. 



Cinereous-testaceous. Head and fore part of the thorax some- 

 what fawn-coloured. Hind tarsi not pilose. Fore wings speckled 

 with brown, with two diffuse slightly oblique dark brown bands, 

 the first bounded on the inner side by a straight whitish line, and 

 on the outer side by an undulating black line, the second containing 

 an undulating black line; a row of exterior black dots; exterior 

 border brown. Hind wings with three brown bands, the second and 

 third connected in front ; exterior border and ciliae partly brown. 

 Length of the body 8 — 9 lines; of the wings 18 — 20 lines. 



a—d. Navigators' Islands. Presented by the late Duke of 

 Northunaberland. 



Genus 2. NYMBIS. 



Corpus laeve, vix robustum. Palpi erecti ; articulus 3us 

 acicularis, subvillosus,2i dimidio non brevior. Antennae filiformes, 

 fcem. crenulatae. Pectus et femora villosa. Abdomen cylindrico- 

 conicura. Alae integrae, squamosae, velutinae ; anticae acutae, sub- 

 falcatae, margine exteriore convexo, lineis distinctis, poslicae rotun- 

 datae, subtus pubescentes. 



Genus 2. N^'mbis, Guen. Noct. iii. 320. 



Body smooth, hardly stout. Palpi vertical ; third joint acicular, 

 pubescent, about half the length of the second. Antennae filiform, 

 crenulate in the female. Pectus and femora villose. Abdomen 

 cylindric-conical. Wings broad. Fore wings acute, subfalcate, 

 slightly convex along the costa and along the exterior border, which 

 • is slightly oblique. 



1. Nymbis iniqua. 



Foem. Saturate fusca ; alee anticce lineis interiore et exteriore 

 rectis parallelis pallidioribus non obliquis extus nehulosis^ 

 reniformi magna subrectangulata, orbiculari alba punctiformi, 

 punctis submarginalibus indistinctis ; posticce fuscce^ ciliis 

 latis pallidioribus, 



Nymbis iniqua, Guen, Noct, iii. 321, 1784. 



Brazil ? 



6p 



