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It ia scarcely the size of inceptuni, and the wiii^js are rather more obtuse. 

 Superior cinereous, with intensely black terminal clots ; the costa also marked 

 with black dots, which indicate the origin of the ordinary lines, which are little 

 visible ; the half-line is the most apparent, formed of two arcs, one placed above 

 the other ; no basal lino ; subterminal indicated by a series of wedge-shaped 

 blackish spots ; and the central shade by a black dot on the inner margin ; the two 

 ordinary spots are visible, and of the normal form : inferior smoky-grey, without 

 markings, and with a white fringe ; their under-side whitish, with a large black 

 cellular lunule, and a strongly defined border, which resembles that of the species 

 of Anarta. Antennae stout, scarcely ciliated. The terminal joint of the palpi 

 strongly projecting, but much shorter than the second, naked, and somewhat club- 

 shaped. Thorax with a black line on each patagium. 



PRALENITES. 

 Tamilt II. ENNOMID^. 

 Genus Poltgonia, Guenee, n. g. 



Larva ?. Imago — palpi long, straight, connivent, forming a 



beak ; second joint thick, hairy ; third filiform, acute. Antenna? of the 

 ^ rather short, slender, and completely filiform. Pody very slender. 

 Tliorax scarcely broader than the abdomen, short, scaly. Abdomen 

 very long, not conical. Legs very long and very slender, not pilose, 

 almost equal ; the spurs robust. Wings strongly angulated and incised, 

 glossy, shining ; the markings mostly well marked. 



A genus which appears to be proper to Oceania, and which has 

 but little analogy to others. It seems to agree a little with Ennomos, 

 Selenia, Ryperetis, and Entomopteryx, after which it appears to place 

 itself in the order adopted in my " Species. 



POLTGONIA FOETINATA, Gueuec, U. S. 



Alee valde dentatcs et angulatcB^violaceo-cervince : anticce lineis nigris 

 maxime expressis, 1^ bidentata, 2* sinuato-hidentata, puncto nigro ante- 

 cedente lituraque costali fuscis : posticce pallidiores, linea media incom- 

 pleta : suhtus omnes Jlavcd, ferrugi7ieo-varias, lineis distinctis. 



This charming Phalenite is a most curious species. The wings are cut in an 

 altogether peculiar manner. Superior having each at the apex two triangular ex- 

 cisions, the first of which is very deep (the inferior have also two excisions near 

 the middle) ; they are testaceous-yellow, more or less tinged with violet, and with 

 two deep black, well marked median lines ; the first line forms, above and beneath 

 the median nervure, two very acute angles ; the second forms also two corres- 

 ponding angles, but more open and blunter, and is bordered on the inside with paler ; 

 between the two lines is a brown mark on the costa, and a black dot beneath it ; 

 opposite to the second angle of the elbowed line are two more black dots, and 



