LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
1659 
Male. Body rather slender. Proboscis elongate. Palpi as- 
cending, rather long; third joint lanceolate, less than half the 
length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated, nearly 
three-fourths of the length of the body. Abdomen extending for 
half its length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather long ; hind 
tibiae with lour minute spurs. Wings narrow. Fore wings straight 
in front, hardly acuminated at the tips, extremely oblique along the 
exterior border ; first, second and third inferior veins approximate 
at the base ; fourth very remote. 
A vela diversa. 
Mas. . Nigricans ; caput antice , palpi subtus , thoracis latera an - 
tica , abdominisque vittce dues ventrales albida ; ala flavee, 
antica basi dimidioque apicali fasciam obliquam Jlavam in- 
cludente nigris , poslica nigro marginatce. 
Male. Blackish. Head whitish in front. Palpi whitish 
beneath. Thorax whitish on each side in front. Abdomen with a 
whitish stripe along each side beneath. Wings yellow. Fore 
wings black at the base; apical half obliquely black, including an 
oblique yellow band. Hind wings with a broad blackish border, 
which is very narrow for a short space towards the tip of the exterior 
margin. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 
Brazil. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
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Chrysauge ? FLAVELATA. 
Nigra ; ala flava, nigro late marginatce , anticce apices versus nigra 
macula Jlava . 
Phalaena flavelata, Cram. Pap. Exot . iv. 112, pi. 348, f. B. 
Surinam. 
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Fam. NYCTEMEKIDiE. 
This family will comprehend the genera Devara , Aletis , Mennis , 
Phagorista , Stenele , Erchia , Massaga , Eudule p Rhosus, San gala, 
Nelo, Melanchroia , Ngctemera , Pterothysanus , Otroeda , Euschema ? 
Prasos, Barbicornis ? Psychomorpha P Caralisa and Arina. 
Some of the genera, like a few of the Pericopida and of the 
Chalcosiida , have much resemblance to the Rhopalocera. The body 
