﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1599 



alas posticas paullo supevans. Pedes robusti, longuisculi, vix 

 pilosi. Alae integrae, concolores, lituris non diversis ; anticae valde 

 oblongae, lanceolatie, margine exteriore valde obliqiio ; posticae 

 breves, an^^ulo exteriore bene deterininalo. 



Mecoditia, Guen. Noct, iii. 372. 



Male. Body smootb, hardly slender. Palpi curved, obliquely 

 ascending; second joint stout; third tiliform, acute, very slender, 

 half the length of the second. Antennae rather robust, hardly 

 crenulate, much more than half the leno^ih of the body, their ciliae 

 short and slender. A!)doraen stout, hardly keeled, extending some- 

 what beyond the hind wings, with a thick apical tuft of stiff hairs. 

 Legs stout, rather long, hardly pilose. Wings entire, alike in 

 colour and with like markings. Fore wings lanceolate, very oblong ; 

 exterior border very oblique. Hind wings with the apical angle 

 very distinct. 



1. Mecodina lanceola. 



Mas. Saturate fusca ; caput et thorax anticus rufo-fusca; ab- 

 domen fasciculo apicali rufescente ; ala- violaceo aut schistaceo 

 tinctcB, linea marginali tenuissima pallida fusco maryinata ; 

 anticcB lineis fuscis non distinctis, orhieulari fusca puncti- 

 formi, reniformi coarctata schistacea fusco marginata^ arcu 

 apicali schistaceo ; posticce strigis duabus submarginalibus 

 unaque discali undulatis tremulis, 



Mecodina lanceola, Guen. Noct. iii. 373, 1857. 



Silhet. 



Genus 21. AGYRA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Fasciculus frontalis non prominens. 

 Proboscis brevis. Palpi ascendentes ; articulus 2us ensiforrais, 

 compressus ; 3us linearis, obtusus, 2i triente non longior. An- 

 tennae longae, ciliatse, ciliis approximatis pubescentibus. Thorax 

 depressus, dilatatus. Abdomen conicum, attenuatum. Pedes 

 longi, annulati, sat validi. Alas integrae, velutinae ; anticae acutae, 

 margine exteriore tiexo ; posticae angulo interiore subproducto. 



Agyra, Guen. Noct. iii. 373. 



Male. Body slender. Frontal tuft not prominent. Proboscis 

 short. Palpi ascending ; second joint ensiform, compressed; third 

 linear, obtuse, one-third of the length of the second. Antennae 



