LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 367 



Body slender, cylindrical, linear, rather long. Palpi porrect, a 

 little shorter than the head ; third joint conical, much shorter than 

 the second. Antennae slender, beset with minute bristles in both 

 sexes. Abdomen extending for one-third of its length beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 long, rather narrow, with luteous or yellow semihyaline marks ; three 

 inferior veins. 



1. Lyces angulosa. 



Atra ; alee anticce fascia obliqua discali lutea ; posticce bistriente 

 lutea nigro marginata. 



Deep black. Fore wings with an oblique luteous band whose 

 hind end is by the tips of the hind wings. Hind wings luteous with 

 a black border for two- thirds of the length from the base ; this lute- 

 ous part is subquadrate outward, becomes narrower inward, and 

 almost extends to the inner border. Length of the body 6 Hues ; of 

 the wings 18 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



2. Lyces flavissima. 



Atra; alee anticce fascia obliqua subfusiformi discali leetissime 

 flava ; posticce leetissime flavce, nigro marginata. 



Deep black. Head gray beneath. Legs slightly grayish. 

 Fore wings with a very bright oblique nearly fusiform yellow band 

 a little beyond the middle. Hind wings very bright yellow with 

 broad black borders. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 

 17—20 lines. 



a — c. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus 27. CHBYSAUGE. 



Corpus gracile, sublineare, plus minusve elongatum et cylindri- 

 cum. Palpi capite breviores aut paullo longiores ; articulus 3us 

 minimus, aut 2i dimidio vix brevior. Antennae maris plerumque 

 late pectinatae,nonnunquam simplices, fcemince plerumque simplices, 

 nonnunquam subpectin^tae. Abdomen alas posticas attingens aut 

 paullo superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae bicalcaratae aut 

 quadricalcaratae. Alae longitudine mediocres, latitudiue variabiles. 



Chrysauge, Hitbn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. 

 Micropus, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. 66. 



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