﻿LEPfDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1623 



fuscis undulatis denticulatis incompletis suhdiffusls, tinea 

 ohliqua recta, obscuriore ex parte fusco marginata, nebula 

 exteriore obscuriore, lunulis marginalihus nigricantibus 

 magnis., fimbria fusco interlineata ; antics orbiculari parva 

 nigricante, reniformi nigro margiaata, fimbria fusca. 



Female. Pale testaceous, minutely speckled with brown. 

 Head and fore part of the thorax hrownish. Frontal tuft very 

 acute. Wino^s with ihe lines brown, undulating" and denticulated, 

 incomplete, slightly diffuse; a straia^ht oblique less pale testaceous 

 and partly brown-bordered line, which extends from beyond the 

 middle of the interior border of the hind winj^s towards the tips of 

 the fore wings, on approaching which it is obsolete; a less pale 

 testaceous tinge about the exterior border; marginal lunules 

 blackish, large; fringe interlined with brown. Fore wings with the 

 orbicular mark small, blackish ; reniform irregularly bordered with 

 black ; fringe nearly wholly brown. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 15 lines . 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus 27. PLAXIA. 



Corpus gracile, vix pilosum. Fasciculus frontalis trigonus 

 valde acutus. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi longi, ascendentes, 

 valde compressi ; articulus 2us rectus, fasciculatus ; 3us squamosus, 

 apice obliquus, 2i triente longior. Antennae graciles, longiusculae, 

 crenulataB. Abdomen attenuaturn, sublineare, lasve, alas posticas 

 vix superans. Pedes longi, graciles, nudi; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 longis. Alae longae, subfalcatae, concolores, lituris non diversis, 

 fimbria brevi ; anticae acutae, subfalcatae, apud costam vix convexae, 

 margine exteriore obliquo subflexo. 



Plaxia, Guen, Noct. iii. 386. 



Body, slender, hardly pilose. Frontal tuft triangular, very 

 acute. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi long, ascending, much 

 compressed ; second joint straight, smooth in front, hirsute behind, 

 where the hairs form a slender apical tuft; third also squamous, 

 oblique at the tip, more than one-third of the length of the second. 

 Antennae slender, rather long, crenulate in both sexes ; ciliae fine, 

 approximate. Abdomen attenuated, nearly linear, smooth, hardly 

 pilose, hardly extending beyond the hind wings, that of the female 

 ending abruptly in an acute tip. Legs long, slender, bare ; hind 

 tibiae with long spurs. Wings long, delicate, entire, alike in colour 



