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length of the second. Antennae ciliated. Abdomen extending 

 a little beyond the hind wings. Fore wings denticulated along 

 the exterior border, with black marks along the costa ; disk and 

 borders of the veins mostly clouded with blackish gray ; trans- 

 verse lines angulose, black ; submarginal one slightly undulating, 

 blackish brown, with a pale exterior border; marginal black lunules 

 linear ; spots bordered with black ; claviform spot almost con- 

 tiguous to the orbicular, the latter oblique and smaller than the 

 reniform, which has a whitish exterior border. Hind wings aeneous- 

 brown. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by the Rev. W. Colenso. 



Genus 7. EPUNDA. 



Corpus robustum, pilosissimum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. 

 Palpi validi, pilosi, ascendentes ; articulus 3us conicus, brevis. An- 

 tennae corporis dimidio valde longiores. Pedes validi ; tibiae pos- 

 ticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter latae, apud costam 

 rectae, apice subrotundata?, margine exteriore subdenticulato, medio- 

 criter obliquo. Mas. — Antennae serratae. Abdomen alas posticas 

 vix triente superans, apud apicem dense fasciculatum. Fcem. — 

 Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. 



Brithys, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 



Polia, p., Treit.; Boisd. ; Dup.; Herr.-Sch&ff. 



Hadena, p., Dup. 



Epunda, p., Dup. ; Guen. Noct. ii. 45. 



Body stout, very pilose. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 stout, pilose, ascending ; third joint conical, hardly one-fourth of 

 the length of the second. Antennae much more than half the length 

 of the body. Legs stout; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 moderately broad, slightly rounded at the tips, moderately oblique 

 and slightly denticulated along the exterior border. Male. — An- 

 tennae serrated. Abdomen extending for nearly one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind wings, thickly tufted at the tip. Female. — 

 Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. 



L Epunda Luneburgensis. 



Cinereo-fusca ; abdomen cinereum ; al& anticce lineis transversis 

 undulatis et macularum marginibus canis nigro marginatis, 

 fascia intermedia nigra ; postica cinerece, fcem. albo ciliatce. 



