﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1559 



Argidia. 



I. Heterospila. fulgurea. 



Testacea ; alee cinereo nebulosce, linea transversa obliqua recta 

 nigro-fusca extus cervino marginata^ fasciisque duabus 

 angulosis nigro-cinereis^ una interiore, altera exteriore ; 

 anticce gutta interiore alba, lineolaque obliqua costali nigra- 

 cinerea. 



Heterospila fulgurea, Guen, Noct. iii. 352, 1824. 



Java. 



Genus 6. THIONA. 



Corpus gracile, laeve, parce pilosum. Caput parvum. Pro- 

 boscis mediocris. Palpi porrecti, villoso-squamosi, valde compressi ; 

 articulus 3us 2o vix angustior, apice truncatus. Antennfe monili- 

 formes, pubescenies, seiis nonnullis noa approximatis. Pedes 

 longi, sequales, fere glabri. Alae amploe, integrae, concolores, 

 linea communi obliqua, margine exieriore flexo; anticae acutae, 

 falcatae. 



Thiona, Guen. Noct. iii. 352. 



Body slender, sraootb, slightly pilose. Head small. Proboscis 

 of moderate length. Palpi porrect, villose-squamose, much com- 

 pressed ; third joint nearly as broad as the second, square at the 

 tip. Antennae moniliform, pubescent, with a few isolated bristles. 

 Legs long, equal, almost bare. Wings ample, entire, alike in 

 colour, with an oblique line; exterior border forming a rounded 

 flexure. Fore wings acute, falcate. 



]. Thiona Phal^na. 



Sordide ochraceo-flava ; alee anticce linea obliqua subflexuosa 

 margine diffusa obscuriore ; orbiculari alba punctiformi, 

 reniformi e punctis nonnullis nigricantibus ; fosticce linea 

 pallide violaceo-cinerea duplicata magis recta* 



Thiona Phalaeua, Guen. Noct. iii. 353, 1825. 



Brazil. 



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