﻿LEPIDOPTERA IlETEROCERA. 1613 



Genus 26. HYPERNARIA. 



Corpus vix robustuni. Fasciculus frontalis porrectus. Pro- 

 boscis mediocris. Palpi longiusculi, oblique ascendenles,subpilosi ; 

 articulus 3us linearis, apice rotuudalus, 2i dimidio longior, apicem 

 versus fasciculatus. Antennae longiusculce, maris subpectinatae. 

 Abdomen louii^um, cylindricum) alas posticas sat superans. Pedes 

 longi, sat validi, subpilosi; tibiae poslicae calcaribus longissimis. 

 Alae amplae, integrae ; anticaB apud costam convexae, apice reclan- 

 gulatae, margine exteriore vix obliquo versus angulum interiorem 

 subflexo. 



Hypernaria, Guen. Nod. iii. 381. 

 Gorgonia, Huhn. Verz. Schmett, 270. 

 Apistis, Hubn. Exot. Schmett. 



Body hardly stout. Frontal tuft prominent. Proboscis mode- 

 rately long. Palpi rather long ; obliquely ascending, slightly pilose ; 

 third joint linear, rounded at the tip, more than half the length of 

 the second ; its hairs forming a notch near the tip. Antennae 

 rather long, much more than half the length of the body, mode- 

 rately pectinated in the male. Abdomen long, cylindrical, ex- 

 tending some distance beyond the hind wings. Legs long, rather 

 stout, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings 

 ample, entire, with short cilias. Fore wings convex along the costa, 

 rectangular at the tips ; exterior border hardly oblique, slightly 

 bent towards the interior angle. 



Mexico. 



Hypernaria unanimis. 



Foem. Ferrugineo-rufa ; alee linea ohliqua recta obscure fer- 

 ruginea intus testaceo submarginata, punctis submarginalibus 

 paucis minimis^ lituris siibtus transversis nigris ; anticce 

 lineis duabus subobsoletis, orbiculari e gutta parva alba, reni- 

 formi parva alba nigro marginata. 



Female. Ferruginous-red. Wings paler and transversely 

 speckled with black beneath, above with a straight dark ferruginous 

 line extending from the tips of the fore wings to beyond the middle 

 of the interior border of the hind wings, and slightly bordered with 

 testaceous on the inner side ; submarginal points white^ few and 

 very minute. Fore wings with slight indications of two other lines, 



