﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCERA. 1639 



1. AZIRTSTA INTRACTA. 



FoBm. Pallida cervina, vix cinerascens ; alee linea ohliqua oh- 

 scuriore pallido marginata apud costam flexa^punctis auhmar- 

 ginalihus nigris, ciliis fuscescentibus ; anticce lineis hasali 

 et interiore undulatis angulatis vix conspicuis, ilia ex parte 

 albo notata^ orbicidari et reniformi rufescente cercinis nigro 

 marginatis, hac nigro notata ; posticce basi margineque in- 

 teriore pilosissimis. 



Female, Pale fawn-colour, with a slight cinereous tinge. 

 Wings with a slightly darker pale-hordered oblique line extending 

 from beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings to 

 the costa of the fore wings, on approaching which it is much bent 

 inward; an irregular row of submarginal black points; ciliaB 

 brownish. Fore wings with the basal and interior lines just visible, 

 undulating and angular, the former partly marked with white; 

 orbicular and reniform marks reddish fawn-colour, with black 

 borders, the former round, the latter composed of two connected 

 circles, the hind one larger than the fore one, their disks marked 

 with black. Hind wings very pilose towards the base and along 

 the interior border. Length of the body 8 — 9 lines ; of the wings 

 22—24 lines. 



a, Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus 36. EDYMA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis gracilis, brevis. Palpi 

 porrecti, longissimi, pubescentes, bicolores, vix ascenclentes, valde 

 compressi; articulus 2us ensiformis; 3us sublinearis, subcristatus, 

 2o vix brevier. Antennae crenulatse, setis parvis non approximatis. 

 Abdomen lanceolatum, alas posticas vix superans. Pedes validi, 

 subpilosi; tibiae posticae calcaribus longissimis. Alae anticae sat 

 oblongae, apice rectangulatae, margine exteriore vix convexo valde 

 oblique. 



Male, Body slender. Proboscis slender, short. Palpi porrect, 

 very long, very slightly ascending, much compressed, pubescent, of 

 two colours ; second joint ensiform ; third nearly linear, slightly 

 crested above, almost as long as the second. Antennae crenulate, 

 with short rather remote setae. Abdomen lanceolate, hardly 



