LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 679 



Genus 8. TAMILA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi por- 

 recti, graciles, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us conicus, mini- 

 mus, 2i quadrante brevior. Autennee simplices, corporis dimidio 

 longiores. Abdomen alas posticus non superans. Pedes sat gra- 

 ciles ; tibia? posticae calcaribus longis. Alae anticae latiusculae, apud 

 costam rectae, apice subrotundatae, margin e exteriore mediocriter 

 obliquo. 



Tamila, Guen. Noct. ii. 176. 

 Acontia, p., Steph. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi por- 

 rect, slender, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint conical, 

 very minute, not one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 simple, more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not ex^ 

 tending beyond the hind wings. Legs rather slender; hind tibiae 

 with long spurs. Fore wings rather broad, straight in front, some- 

 what rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior 

 border. 



1. Tamila Nundina. 



Alba ; alee antica fasciis variis fusco-cupreis, orbiculari puneti- 

 formi, reniformi magna punctisque rnarginalibus nigri- 

 cantibus ; posticae lunula discali fasciaque submarginalifusco- 

 cupreis. 



, Drury, Ins. i. 36, pi. 18, f. 5. 



Phalaena (Noctua) Nundina, Drury, App. ii. 



Noctua (Acontia ?) Nundina, Westw. Drury, i. 35, pi. 18, f. 5. 



a. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. ? 



2. Tamila? lignaris. 



Fcem. Ferruginea ; alee basi fulvescentes, fasciis plurimis ap- 

 proximates perobliquis nigro-violaceis in alarum anticarum 

 apicibus convergentibus ; anticce guttis duabus anticis discali- 

 bus nigris. 



Itomia lignaris (Noctua semigeometra, Heliothis alacris), Hubn. 

 Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii.22, 159, f.317, 318 ; Verz. Schmett. 

 271,2673. 



Surinam. 



