286 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



Group 4. AGLAOPE. 



Corpus cvlindricum, longum, gracillimum, non metallicum. 

 Palpi minimi. Proboscis thoracis longitudine. Antennae corpore 

 multo breviores, maris late pectinatae, foeminae subpectinatae. Alae 

 perangustae, vix trigonae ; anticae postice vix angulatae. Abdomen 

 alas posticas ejus dimidio superans, maris apice fasciculalum. 

 Pedes gracillimi ; tibiae anticae simplices; posticae calcare unica 

 minima apicali. 



Aglaope, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 214. Boisd. 



Body cylindrical, long, extremely slender, not metallic. Palpi 

 very minute. Proboscis as long as the thorax. Antennae much 

 shorter than the body, rather deeply pectinated in the male, slightly 

 pectinated in the female. Wings extremely narrow, hardly trigo- 

 nate. Fore wings very indistinctly angular by the tips of the hind 

 wings; discal fold distinct in the discal areolet; the four inferior 

 veins distinct; third a little more remote from the second than the 

 second from the first; fourth twice further from the third than the 

 third from the second ; three superior veins, the third forked before 

 half its length. Abdomen extending for full half its length beyond 

 the hind wings, tufted at the tip in the male. Legs extremely 

 slender ; fore tibiae simple in both sexes ; hind tibiae with no 

 middle spurs and with but one very minute hind spur. 



6. Ctenucha Americana. 

 Cyaneo-nigra ; prothorax fulvus. 



Aglaope Americana, Boisd. ; Griff. Anim,. Kingd. Lep. 



Procris Americana, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 16, f. 7. Guer. 



Icon. Regne Anim. Ins. pi. 84, bis, f. 11. 

 Procris dispar, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass. 

 Procris Americana, Harris, Descr. Cat. N. Amer. Sphin. (Amer, 



Journ. Sci. fy Arts, xxxvi. 2), 35. 



"Blue-black; with a saffron-coloured prothorax, and a fan- 

 shaped, somewhat bilobed, black caudal tuft. Larva hairy, green, 

 with black bands; gregarious, and devours the leaves of the grape- 

 vine, and undergoes its transformations in an oblong-oval, tough, 

 whitish cocoon, which is fastened to a leaf/' 



a — c. Georgia. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

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