﻿LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 1587 



Genus 15. EPHYRODES. 



Corpus vix robustum. Fasciculus frontalis acutus. Proboscis 

 mediocris. Palpi longi, compressi, oblique ascendentes, pilis com- 

 pressis; articulus 3us subspatulatus, oblusus, 2i dimidio longior. 

 Antennae maris pectinatae, /(asm. crenulatae. Abdomen alas posticas 

 paullo superans, mam Ion g-i-conicum, /a? /n. lineare. Pedes longius- 

 culi, vix robusti, subpilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longis. AlsB 

 mediocres, concolores, lituris non diversis, margine exteriore 

 angulato. 



Ephyrodes, Guen, Noct, iii. 365. 



Body hardly stout* Frontal tuft acute. Proboscis moderately 

 long. Palpi long, compressed, obliquely ascending, with com- 

 pressed hairs ; third joint subspatulate, obtuse at the tip, not much 

 shorter than the second. Antennae subpectinated in the male, 

 crenulated with isolated hardly perceptible ciliae in the female. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings, attenuate- 

 conical in the male, stouter, linear, ^nd abruptly acuminated at the 

 tip in the female. Legs rather long, hardly stout, slightly pilose ; 

 hind tibiae with rather long spurs. Winors moderately broad, alike 

 in colour and markings ; exterior border forming an an^^le, which is 

 most acute in the hind wings. Fore wings straight along the costa, 

 } acute and almost rectangular at the tips* 



West Indies. 



A. Alae venis pallidis. 



A. Alae lineae obliquae margine exteriore non dilatato. 



A. Maris tibiae intermediae non fasciculatae. - Cacata, Guen, 



B. Maris tibiae intermediae fasciculatae. - Omicron, Guen, 



B, Alae lineae obliquae margine exteriore dilatato. 



exprimens, Walk* 



B. Alae venis nigris. - - * * - - implens, Walk* 



1. Ephybodes Cacata. 



Cinerea, plus minusve rufescens, nigro conspersa ; alee linea ex- 

 teriore albida fusco maginata aut furruginea nonnunquam 

 guttulari, punctis submarginalibus al bis ferrugineo aut nigro 



