LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 817 



Genus 3. GALGULA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi porrecti, 

 caput sat superantes ; articulus 3us longi-conicus, miuutus. An- 

 tenna? simplices, corporis dimidio nou longiores. Abdomen alas 

 posticas vix superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 longissimis. Alae longiusculae, vix lata? ; anticae apud costam sub- 

 rectae, apice angulatas, margine exteriore sat obliquo. 



Galgula, Guen. Noct. ii. 239. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi porrect, ex- 

 tending some distance beyond the head ; third joint minute, elon- 

 gate-conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae simple, about half the length of the body. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; hind 

 tibiae with very long spurs. Wings rather long, moderately broad. 

 Fore wings almost straight in front, angular at the tips, rather 

 oblique along the exterior border. 



I. GALGULA PARTITA. 



Pallide cervina ; aloe anticce macula costali guttisque interioribus 

 et exterioribus nigris, linea obliqua exteriore pallida ; posticce 

 cinerascentes. 



Galgula partita, Guen. Noct. ii. 239, 1022. 



a — d. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 

 Esq. 



2. Galgula hepara. 



Saturate hepatico fusca ; alee anticce violaceo tinctce, casta mar- 

 gineque interiore pallidioribus rufescente strigata, lineis trans, 

 versis pallidioribus, submarginali e punctis albis, orbiculari 

 et reniformi pallido marginatis ; posticce niyricantes, ciiiis 

 albo marginatis. 



Galgula hepara, Guen. Noct. ii. 239, 1023. 



North America. 



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