LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 479 



3. APISTOSIA? MULT1FARIA. 



Cyanea ; caput, protJwrax et thoracis latera rosea; alee nigrce, basi 

 cyanesce?ites, costa fimbriaque albis. 



Allied to EuchromiaP Metallic blue. Head, protliorax and 

 sides of the thorax clothed with rosy hairs. Abdomen extending 

 very little beyond the hind wings. Fore coxae, knees and tips of 

 the tibiae white. Palpi red, very much shorter than the head; third 

 joint conical, very small. Wings black, rather long and narrow, 

 tinged with blue towards the base ; costa and fringe mostly white ; 

 first and second inferior veins very near together at the base ; third 

 i'ull four times further from the fourth than from the second. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. California. From M. Deyrolle's collection. 



4. Apistosia ? Umber. 



Fusca ; caput inter oculos flaw guttatum ; antenna? subpectinata? ; 

 pectus guttis duabus anticis lateralibus flavidis ; abdomen fla- 

 vum, vitta basali nigra. 



Phalaena Umber, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 24, pi. 15, f. F. 



Bombyx Umber, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 202, 138; Mant. Ins. ii. 131, 



193; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 478, 220. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 



2447, 599. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 99, 253. 

 Apistosia Umber, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 164, 1694. 



Surinam. 



Genus 81. ANTONA. 



Mas. Corpus sublineare, sat validum, mediocriter longum. 

 Caput parvum. Palpi porrecti, graciles, capite paullo breviores ; 

 articulus 3us acuminatus, 2i dimidio longior. Proboscis mediocriter 

 longa. Antennae subpectinatae. Abdomen alas posticas non supe- 

 rans. Pedes validiusculi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor medio- 

 cribus. Alae sat angustae, mediocriter longae ; anticae costa vix 

 convexa, Ipostice vix ani»ulatae, venis la et 2a inferioribus basi ap- 

 proximatis, 4a valde arcuata. 



Male. Body nearly linear, rather stout, moderately long. 

 Head small. Palpi straight, porrect, slender, a little shorter than 

 the head ; third joint acuminated, more than half the length of the 



