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It is scarcely the size of inceptirra, and the wings are i-ather more obtuse. 
Superior cinereous, with intensely black terminal dots; 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 Une ; 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 fi-inge ; their tmder-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 liue on each patagium. 
Family n. ENXOMIDJ:. 
Genus Poltgo'Ia, Guenee, n. g. 
Larva ?. Imago — palpi long, straight, connivent, forming a 
beak ; second joint thick, hairy ; third filiform, acute. Antennae of the 
J rather short, slender, and completely filiform. Body very slender. 
Thorax 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'' 
PoLTGO>'iA FOBTLN-ATA, Guenee, n. s. 
Al(e valde dentatce et angulatcE,violaceo-cervin<je : aniicce lineis nigris 
niaxime expressis, \'^ bidentata, I"' sinuato-hidentata, puncto nigro ante- 
cedente lituraque costali fuscis : posticce pallidiores, linea media incom- 
plefa : stibfus omnes Jl<iV(B, ferrugiiieo-varice, lineis distincfis. 
This chai-ming 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 neai- 
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 mai-k on the costa, and a black dot beneath it ; 
opposite to the second angle of the elbowed line are two more black dots, and 
