﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1851 



1. Galapha ANGULIPLAGA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; caputs thorax antice^ palpi pedesque nigricantia ; 

 alee anticcB nigra subconspersce^ apud costam rufescentes^ di- 

 midio apicali obscure cinereo^ macula poslica interiore magna 

 subquadrata ramulum emittente maculaque discali pyriformi 

 airis, guttis marginalibus nigricantibus ; posticce pallide 

 cinerea;, margine exteriors obscuro. 



Male, Cinereous. Head, thorax in front, palpi and leafs 

 blackish. Fore winj^s minutely speckled with black, with a reddibh 

 tinge along the costa ; exterior half mostly dark cinereous; a lar^e 

 deep black subquadrate spot near ihe base of the inleiior border, 

 emittini>- a short branch towards an irregular pyriforui deep black 

 spot, which indicates the reniiorm mark; marginal dots blackish. 

 Hind wings pale cinereous, dark cineieous towards the exterior 

 ( border. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Katal. In Mr.. Saunders' collection. 



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I Genus ESCUA. 



1 Fcem, Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi hm^^i, 



' oblique ascendentes ; articulus 3as vix subclavatus, 2o non brevior. 

 Antennae subciliatae, corporis dimidio lonoiores. Abdomen lance- 

 i olatum, alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes vix vajidi; femora 

 j tibiaeque pilis longis dense ciliatae. Alae latiuscuhe ; anticae apud 

 I costam vix convexae, apice rectangulatse, margine exteriore flexo. 



' Female. Body moderately stout. Proboscis short. Palpi 



j long, obliquely ascending ; third joint as lon<i as the second, very 

 slightly widening towards the tip, which is rounded. Antennae 

 minutely ciliated, more than half the length of the body. Abdomen 

 lanceolate, extendiuij: a little beyojid the hind wings. Legs hardly 



j stout ; feumra and tibiae densely fringed with long hairs. Wings 

 rather broad. Fore wings very slightly convex alon^- the costa, 



I rectangular at the tips; exterior border bent in the middle, its hind 

 part moderately oblique. 



1. EsCUA EXTOLLENS. 



Foem. Ferrugineo-fusca ; al(B anticce purpurea subtinctce, apud 

 marginem exteriorem pallidiores, litura apud unguium interi- 

 orem nigricante^ lineis interiore el exteriore pallidis subobli- 



