﻿LEPIDOPTEllA HETEROCERA. 1649 



half the length of the second. Winp^s shining, rather narrow. 

 Fore wings slightly clouded, with darker cinereous in the disk, 

 slightly marked wilh black along the cosla and on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reniforra marks slightly bordered with black ; the 

 former nearly elliptical; the latter oblong-subquadrate, hardly con- 

 tracted in the middle; marginal points black; ciliae dark cinereous, 

 with white streaks. Hind wings brownish cinereous, with white 

 ciliae. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. New Zealand. From Mr. Churton's collection. 



Genus DECLANA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi graciles, porrecti ; 

 articulus 2us subtus parce pilosus ; 3us linearis, gracillimus, apice 

 subobtusus, 2o paullo brevior. AntennsB sub fili formes, corporis 

 dimidio paullo longiores. Thorax squamosus. Abdomen alas 

 posticas paullo superans. Pedes sat graciles ; femora pilis longis ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus vix longis. Alae mediocres, subdenticulaiae ; 

 anticaB quasi cristiferae, apice rectangulata^, costa basi subconvexa, 

 margine exteriore subconvexo postica obliquo. Mas. — xlntenua; 

 subserratae. Abdominis fasciculus apicalis plumosus, radiatus. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi slender, 

 porrect; second joiut thinly pilose beneath; third linear, very 

 slender, rather obtuse at the tip, a little shorter than the second. 

 Antennae almost filiform, minutely serrated in the male, simple ia 

 the female, a little more than half the length of the body. Thorax 

 somewhat squamose. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings, with an apical plumose diverging 

 tuft in the male. Legs rather slender ; femora with long hairs ; 

 hind tibiae with hardly long spurs. Wings shining, moderately 

 broad, slightly denticulated. Fore wings with elevated flecks; 

 costa slightly convex towards the base ; tips rectangular ; exterior 

 border slightly convex, with the hind part oblique. 



L Declana floccosa. 



Mas et fcem. — Albida ; capitis latera subtus nigro pilosa ; thorax 

 cinereo nigroque varius ; pedes nigro fasciati ; alee anticce 

 lituris variis nigris, costa nigra punctata, lunulis marginalibus 



