LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
1 755 
Male. Testaceous. Head and fore part of the thorax some- 
what tawny. Palpi brownish above. Abdomen pale brownish 
above, with a slender interrupted darker stripe along each side. 
Fore wings with a slender very slightly curved tawny stripe, extend- 
ing along the whole length, and with three very oblique bands of 
tawny dots. Hind wings very pale brown above. Length of the 
body 8 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 
Hindostan. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
Genus EDEBESSA. 
Fcem. Corpus robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 
brevissimi. Antennae subpectinatas, thorace paullo longiores. Ab- 
domen alas posticas superans, apice dense lanuginosum. Pedes 
validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus minimis apicalibus. Alae 
anticae longiusculae, sat angustae, apud costain subconvexae ; apice 
vix acuminatae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 
Much resembles the genus Anodonta. Female. — Body stout. 
Proboscis not visible. Palpi very short. Antennae minutely pecti- 
nated, a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending rather 
beyond the hind wings, thickly lanuginose at the tip. Legs stout ; 
hind tibiae with two very minute apical spurs. Fore wings rather 
long and narrow, very slightly convex in front, hardly acuminated 
at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior border; second in- 
ferior vein more than twice further from the third than from the 
first ; third more than twice further from the fourth than from the 
second. 
1. Edebessa purens. 
Foem. Rufa : antennae nigrce ; thorax fascia antica vittisque 
duabus nigris , pilis nonnullis albis clavatis ; abdomen fus- 
cum ; alee anticce fuscce , marginibus luteo rufis nigrisque albo 
conspersis. 
Female. Bright red. Antennae black. Thorax with some 
white clavate hairs, with a black band in front, and with a black 
stripe on each side. Abdomen brown at the tip. Fore wings 
brown, mostly bordered with white-flecked black, and also with 
luteous-red. Hind wings with a luteous fringe ; hind part of the 
exterior border with a black fringe. Length of the body 8 lines ; 
of the wings 22 lines. 
a. Bio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
