﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1657 



Jongis. Alae mediocres ; anticas subfusiformes, apud costam sub- 

 convexae, apice rectantrulatae, margine exteriore convexo per- 

 oblicjuo ; posticee subtruncalse. 



Male, Body stout, nearly cylindrical. Head with two thick 

 tufts of very long hairs on the under side. Proboscis short. Palpi 

 erect, stout, pubescent, extending nearly to the vertex; second joint 

 slightly curved ; third extremely minute, not one-si xtb of the length 

 of the second. Antennae stout, setaceous, thickly crenulate with 

 very short ciliag, hardly half the length of the body. Thorax and 

 pectus thickly lanuy^inose. Abdomen extending for one-third of 

 ils length bejond the hind wings, with a lanuginose apical luft. 

 Legs rather short and stout, most densely tufted ; hind tibiae with 

 long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings subfusiform, 

 slightly convex along the costa, rectangular at the tips; exterior 

 border convex and very oblique. Hind wings slightly truncated. 



1. Eragisa lanifera. 



Mas. Alba, cinereo subconspersa ; abdomen subluteum, apice 

 album; pedes lutescente vittati ; alee anticce lineis dimbus 

 gracillimis transversis denticulaiis punctisque elongatis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; posticce cinerece, basi albce, subtus basi 

 pallide lutece, fimbria alba, 



Male. White, very slightly and minutely speckled with 

 cinereous. Abdomen somewhat luteous above, except towards the 

 tip. Legs striped with dull luteous. Fore wings with two incom- 

 plete transverse denticulated very slender black lines ; a row of 

 elongated black marginal points. Hind wings cinereous, white 

 towards the base ; under side pale luteous at the base ; fringe white. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Amazon Region. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



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SiMYRA RHODITES. 



Rosea ; alee anticce areola discali radiisque tribus marginalibus 

 Jlavescentibus ; posticce pallide roseo-cinerece, 



Simyra rhodites, Eversm. Ball. Soc, Imp. NaL Mosc, 1851, 2, 



635; 1855,3, 177,6, 

 Simyra aurorina, Herr.-Schceff. Schmett. 57, f. 579. 



Volga Region. Coasts of the Black Sea. 



7 D 3 



