﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1845 



Hon snperaiis. Pedes ^raciles ; tibiae fimhriatee, po^ticae calcavibus 

 longissimis. Alas mediocres ; anticGB apud contain rectae, a})ice 

 rectang^ulatae, margine exteriore recto obliqiio. 



Male, Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi obliquely as- 

 cending ; second joint cnrved, pilose benealh; third joint linear, 

 much more slender than the second, and not more than one-fourth 

 of its length. AntennaB sli^^htly pectinated to about three-fourths 

 of the length, very much more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs slender : 

 tibiae fringed with long hairs ; hind tibiae with very long spurs. 

 Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, 

 rectangular at the tips, straight and moderately oblique along 

 the exterior border. 



1. Onoba trigonoides. 



Mas, Ferrugineo-cinerea ; alee anticce plaga trigona discali fas- 

 ciaque informi exteriore atris alhido marginatia, linea submar- 

 ginali nigricanie diffusa deniiculata ; orbiculari el reniformi 

 e punclo guttaque nigris ; fosticce obscure cinerea, fimbria 

 'pallida. 



Male. Cinereous, tinged above with ferruginous. Fore wings 

 with a deep black triangular patch, which has a whitish border, and 

 with an irregular deep black exterior band, which is bordered with 

 whitish, and forms a large angle on its inner side, and is diffuse on 

 its outer side; snbmarginal line blackish, diffuse, denticulated; 

 marginal points black ; orbicular and reniform marks represented 

 by a black point and a black dot ; costal subapical points pale. 

 Hind wings dark cinereous ; fringe pale. Length of the body 

 5 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



Kio Janeiro. In Mr, Fry's collection. 



Page 1493. 



Genus PHUPHENA. 



Fcem, Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi sat gra- 

 ciles, subnudi, oblique ascendentes; articulus 3us longi-conicuj^, 

 hrevissimus. Antennae simplices, corporis dimidio longiores. Ab- 

 domen alas posticus paullo superans. Pedes sat validi, subnudi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus longissimis. Alae sat angusta?, sul)fuM- 



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