LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
1579 
Male. Blackish brown. Abdomen and hind part of the tho- 
rax ferruginous. Fore wings with a slender oblique discal black 
band, which is recurved on its approach to the hind border, and un- 
dulates thence to the base. Hind wings pale brown, ferruginous at 
the base. 
Country unknown. 
Genus 14. DRACONIA. 
Corpus gracile. Antennae subpectinatae ? thorace non longiores. 
Abdomen longum, alas posticas superans. Alae longae, subfalcatae, 
sat latae ; anticae apud costam vix undulatae, margine exteriore den- 
ticulato sat obliquo. 
Draconia, Hilbn. Verz . Schmett. ( Phalcence Fodicantes Hepioli 
Caducce ), 197. 
Body slender. Antennae slightly pectinated ? not longer than 
the thorax. Abdomen long, extending for about one-fourth of its 
length beyond the hind wings. Wings long, slightly falcate, rather 
broad. Fore wings hardly undulating in front, denticulated and 
rather oblique along the exterior border. 
This genus seems to connect the Hepialidce with the Bom - 
bycidce. 
1. Draconia Peripheta. 
Cervina ; alee fusco confertim lituratce , guttis maculis plagisque 
limpidis. 
? Seba, Thes. iv. pi. 37, f. 9, 10 ; pi. 57, f. 10, 11. 
Phalasna Peripheta, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 54, pi. 131, f. G. 
Draconia Peripheta, Hubn. Verz . Schmett. 197, 2013. 
West Indies. 
