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CATALOGUE OF 
stripe proceeding from the middle of the base, inclined at half its 
length towards the interior border and joining the latter near its tip. 
Hind wings white, brownish at the base, and with brown marks 
along the border. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 
18 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry’s collection. 
Africa. 
5. Phargmamcia pallens. 
Mas. Pallide cervina ; abdomen cinerascens , apice cervinum ; 
alee anticce apices versus cinereo reticulata , postica alba. 
Rhizoma pallens, Boisd. Herr.-Schaff '. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser . 1 , 
f. 169. 
Male. Pale fawn-colour. Abdomen grayish fawn-colour at 
the tip. Apical half of the fore wings minutely reticulated with 
gray. Hind wings white. 
Guinea. 
Genus 9. MORPHEIS. 
Corpus sat validum. Proboscis brevis, distincta. Palpi por- 
recti, caput non superantes; arti cuius 3us acuminatus. Antenna 
graciles, setacese, thorace paullo longiores. Abdomen elongatum 
caput longe superantes. Pedes validi, pilosi, longiusculi ; tibia 
posticse calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Alae longae, an 
gustse ; anticae subfalcatae acuminata? apud costam subrectae,maigin 
exteriore perobliquo. 
Morpheis, H'ubn. Verz . Schmett. (Phalana Fodicantes Teredinc 
Graciles ), 196. 
Myelois, Boisd. ; Herr.-Schaff. 
Body rather stout. Proboscis short, distinct. Palpi porrec 
not extending beyond the head ; third joint acuminated. Antenn 
slender, setaceous, a little longer than the thorax. Abdomene, 
tending for full one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Le] 
stout, pilose, rather long ; hind tibiae with two minute apical spu: 
Wings long and narrow. Fore wings falcate, nearly straight alol 
the costa, acuminated at the tips, slightly undulating and extreme 
oblique along the exterior border ; first and second infenoi vei 
almost contiguous at the base ; third about thrice further fiom _ 
fourth than from the second. 
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