482 LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 



Genus 84. ARDONEA. 





Mas. Corpus sat gracile, sublineare, mediocriter longum. 

 Palpi pilosi, capite nmlto breviores ; articulus 3us conicus, 2o quad- 

 ruplo brevior. Antennae mediocriter pectinatae. Abdomen longi 

 fusiforme, alas posticas quadrario superans, apice forcipatum. Pedes 

 sat graciles ; tibia posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae longi- 

 usculae, subangustae ; anticae ad costam vix convexae, postice suban- 

 gulatae, venis la et 2a inferioribus basi conjunctis, 3a 4aque haud 

 remotis. 



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

 Palpi hairy, much shorter than the head; third joint conical, not 

 more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae mode- 

 rately pectinated. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, extending for one- 

 fourth of its length beyond the hind wings, forcipated at the tip. 

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

 long and narrow. Fore wings hardly convex in front, slightly an- 

 gular behind ; first and second inferior veins united at the base ; 

 third very near the second ; fourth twice further from the third than 

 the third from the second. 



1. Ardonea Morio. 



Nigro-viridis ; alee posticce nigro-cyanecs. 



Lithosia Morio, MSS, 



Greenish black. Hind wings bluish black. Length of the 

 body 4 — 5 lines ; of the wings 12 — 14 lines. 



Var. /3. Fore wings blackish blue. 



Var. y. Hind wings greenish black towards the hind border. 



a. ? From M. Becker's collection. 



b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



c. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Genus 85. ATOLMTS. 



Palpi mediocres, supra recurvi, subsquamosi ; arculi lus et 2us 

 longitudine subasquales ; lus validus; 2us sublinearis ; 3us minutus, 

 subovatus. Maxillae antennis longitudine aequales. Antennae sim- 

 plices, maris setosae. Alae anticae oblongae, subelliptico-truncatae ; 



