310 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



alas posticas vix superans. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae postica? calcari- 

 bus duobus apicalibus sat longis, antieae maris subtus dentatae. Alae 

 breviusculse, latiusculae. 



Epidesma, p<, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 176. 



Body slender, linear, cylindrical, moderately long. Palpi stout, 

 curved, ascending, full as long as the head ; third joint conical, very 

 minute, not more than one-eighth of the length of the second. 

 Antennas slender, more than half the length of the body, beset with 

 short minute bristles in the male, simple in the female. Abdomen 

 extending very little beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; 

 fore tibiae of the male dentated beneath ; hind tibiae with no middle 

 spurs, their apical spurs rather long. Wings rather short and broad. 



35. Josia Ursula. 



Nigro-cinerea, subtus cana ; caput et prothorax testacea ; palpi tes- 

 tacei, supra nigri ; abdomen glaucum, segmentorum marginibus 

 posticis canis ; aim antieae, nigro -f us cce fascia media alba recta 

 Integra venis canis ; posticce glaucce. 



Phalaena Ursula, Cram. Pap. Exot.'w. 107, pi. 345, f. E. 



Grayish black, hoary beneath. Head, proboscis and prothorax 

 testaceous. Palpi testaceous, black above and at the tips. Abdo- 

 men glaucous ; hind borders of the segments hoary. Legs hoary. 

 Fore wings blackish brown, with a bright w r hite nearly upright 

 and linear rather broad band at a little before two-thirds of the 

 length; veins hoary. Hind wings glaucous. Length of the body 

 5| lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



b. South America. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Group 10. LEUCOPSUMIS. 



Corpus lineare, cylindricum. sat valiclum,longitudinemediocri. 

 Palpi ascendentes, corpore paullo longiores ; articulus 3usapice obli- 

 que truncatus, 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae in utroque sexu subpecti- 

 natae. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae 

 posticae calcaribus quatuor breviusculis, antieae maris subtus denti- 

 culatae. Alae subangulatas sat amplae. 



Leucopsumis, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 177. • 



