﻿LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 1653 



duabus albis indeterniinatis, una intcriore lata interrupta, 

 altera exieriore valde interrupta, macula pos tic a exteriore sub- 

 quadrata alba; posticce obscure fuscce. 



Male. Whitish, speckled with brown, brown beneath. Head 

 and fore part of the thorax mostly brown. Tarsi with brown bunds. 

 Fore wings brown, somewhat glaucous in the disk, with three very 

 irregular blackish brown bands, with numerous green scales, with a 

 broad interrupted irregular white band near the base, and with an 

 exterior much interrupted and very irregular white band; a sub- 

 quadrate white spot near the interior angle. Hind wings rather 

 dark brown. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a, Sarawak, Borneo. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Genus MOLYNDA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Caput et thorax pilosissiraa. Pro- 

 boscis brevis. Palpi breves, validi, porrecti, pilosi ; articulus 3us 

 conicus, brevissimus. Antennae vaiidag, setaceae, dense crenulatae, 

 corporis dimidio non longiores. Abdomen cylindricum, longis- 

 simum, vix pilosum, alas posticas dimidio superans ; fasciculus 

 apicalis depressus, longiusculus. Pedes ciliati, breviusculi, sat 

 robusti ; tibiae poslicae calcaribus longis. Alae longiusculae, vix 

 latae; anticae subfusiformes, apud costam vix convexae, apice 

 rectangulatae, margine exteriore subcouvexo perobliquo. 



Male. Body slender. Head and thorax very pilose. Pro- 

 boscis short. Palpi porrect, short, stout, pilose ; third joint conical, 

 less than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae stout, 

 setaceous, hardly half the length of the body, thickly crenulate with 

 short ciliae, which are arranged in pairs. Abdomen cylindrical, 

 very long, hardly pilose, extending for half its length beyond the 

 hind wings; apical tuft rather long and flat. Legs fringed, rather 

 short and stout ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings rather long, 

 hardly broad. Fore wings subfusiform, hardly convex along the 

 costa, rectangular at the tips; exterior border slightly convex, very 

 oblique ; interior angle quite rounded. This genus has some 

 affinity to the Pyralites. 



1. MoLYNDA HU3JERALIS. 



Mas. Cinereo-viridis, nigro conspersa, subtus albido-cinerca ; 

 abdomen cinereum, fusco conspersum^ lateribus basi lutes- 



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