﻿J824 CATALOGUE OF 



Male and female. Cinereous, brownish beneath, where the 

 wings have a single denticulated middle blackish line. Head and 

 fore part of the thorax dark cinereous-brown. Fore legs densely 

 pilose. Wings with two straight oblique diffuse brown bands, and 

 with two brown lines ; the first near the base ; the second denticu- 

 lated and between the bands ; submarginal points brown. Forej 

 wings with a blackish point representing the orbicular mark ; exte-j 

 rior band containing a blackish line. Hind wings with a black 

 point near the interior angle ; exterior border indistinctly an<'ular 

 in the middle. Length of the body b^—Q^ lines; of the wings 

 14—16 lines, 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



h. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



c, d, ? Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



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Genus CiECILA. 



Mas. Corpus sat robustura. Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, 

 crassi, pubescentes, ascendentes ; articulus 3us longi-conicus, 2i 

 dimidio brevior. Antennae longae, validae, confertissime subcrenu- 

 latcB, corpore vix breviores. Abdomen lanceolatum, attenuatum, 

 alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes longiusculi ; tibiae posticae 

 dense fasciculatae, calcaribus longissimis. Alae perangustae, sub- 

 denticulatae ; aniicae apice rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo ; 

 posticae versus angulum interiorem subiruncatae. 



Male. Allied to the Pt/ralites. Body moderately stout. Pro- 

 boscis short. Palpi short, thick, pubescent, ascending, applied to 

 the head ; third joint elongate-conical, less than half the length of 

 the second. Antennae long, stout, very thickly and minutely crenu- 

 lated, nearly as long as the body. Abdomen lanceolate, extending 

 for half its length beyond the bind wings. Legs rather long ; hind 

 tibiae tufted with long hairs, their spurs very long. Wings very 

 narrow, very slightly denticulated. Fore wings straight along the 

 costa, rounded at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior bor- 

 der. Hind wings slightly truncate towards the interior angle. 



