LEPIDOPTEItA HETEROCERA. 815 



Male. Fawn-colour. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings with 

 two indistinct lines of blackish dots near the base, the second line 

 approximate to a pale brown-bordered undulating line, beyond 

 which and adjoining the reniform mark there is a black costal spot; 

 two pale brown-bordered oblique exterior lines and a row of minute 

 blackish dots between these lines, of which the outer one is submar- 

 ginal, and has two white points in front. Length of the body 

 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



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Genus 2. LEPTOSIA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi longi, valid i, por- 

 recti, caput longe superantes ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i triente 

 non brevior. Antennae simplices, validae, corporis dimidio non lon- 

 giores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus longis. Alae mediocriter latae ; anticae 

 apud costam rectae, apice roiundatae, margine exteriore subconvexo 

 perparum obliquo. 



Leptosia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ; Noct. ii. 236 ; Dup, 

 Bryophila, p., Boisd. 

 Anthophila, p., Treit. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi long, stout, porrect, 

 extending far beyond the head ; third joint lanceolate, full one-third 

 of the length of the second. Antennae simple, stout, about half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, slightly 

 convex and very slightly oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Leptosia velox. 



Cinerea; alee anticce ferrugineo subobsolete conspersce, ynaculis 

 costalibus et discalibus, lineisque indistinctis nigris albido 

 marginatis, posticce apud marginem interiorem nigro notatce. 



Noctua velox, H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 507, 515. 

 Metachrostis velox, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 204, 2058. 

 Bryophila velox, Boisd. Ind. Metk. 96, 728. 

 Anthophila velox, Treit. Suppl. 150. 



Anthophila anomala, Ramb. Ann. Sci. Obs. 1829, 257. Boisd. 

 Icon. pi. 71, f. 4. 



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