LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 937 



Genus 6. PLUSIODONTA. 



Corpus gracile. Caput fasciculo antico porrecto. Proboscis 

 brevis. Palpi longi, validi, porreeti, pilosi, caput longe superantes ; 

 articulus 2us linearis, compressus, longissimus. Antennae corporis 

 dimidio non longiores. Thorax brevis, cristatus. Abdomen alas 

 posticas perparum superans. Pedes longiusculi, validi ; tibia? pos- 

 ticee calcaribus longissimis. Alas mediocriter lata? ; anticae apud 

 costara rectae, apice vix acuta?, margine exteriore perparum obliquo, 

 interiore dentato. Mas. — Antennas pectinatae. 



Plusiodonta, Guen. Noct. ii. 359. 



Body slender. Head with a porrect tuft in front. Proboscis 

 short. Palpi long, stout, porrect, pilose, extending far beyond the 

 head ; third joint linear, compressed, very long. Antennae not more 

 than half the length of the body. Thorax short, crested. Abdo- 

 men extending very little beyond the hind wiugs. Legs rather long 

 and stout ; hind tibiae with very long: spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, hardly acute at the tips, very 

 slightly oblique along the exterior border ; a stout villose tooth on 

 the interior border before the middle. Male. — Antennae moderately 

 pectinated. Type, P. compressipalpis. This genus approaches 

 very closely to some groups of Pyralites* 



West Indies. 



1. Plusiodonta Thom^e. 



Alee anticce fusca, violaceo et ferrugineo varice, maculis duabus 

 basalibus lineaque exteriore auratis, apud marginem exteriorem 

 obscure fuscce, plaga purpurascente-cinerea, linea marginali 

 ferruginea squamis purpurascente-albis marginata, angulo 

 interiore denteque ferrugineis ; postica cinerece. 



Plusiodonta Thoraae, Guen. Noct. ii. 360. 



Isle St. Thomas. 



Asia. 

 2. Plusiodonta chalsytoides. 



Ferruginosa^ subtus albida ; capitis thoracisque antice latera lutea ; 

 abdomen cinereum ; ala? antica? cinereo varia, fasciis duabus 

 interruptis antice attenuatis maculaque discali aureis ; posticce 

 cinerea. 



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