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CATALOGUE OF 
1. Lagoa opercularis. 
Mas. Pallide lutea ; caput apud verticem albidum , antice fus- 
cum ; abdomen et alee posticee testacea ; pedes albido pilosi ; 
tarsi nigri ; alee antic ee basi lanuginosee. 
Phalaena opercularis, Smith and Abbot , Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. of 
Georgia , ii. 105, pi. 53. 
Male. Pale luteous. Head whitish on the vertex, brown in 
front. Antennas white ; branches brown, with white tips. Abdo- 
men and hind wings testaceous. Legs partly clothed with whitish 
hairs ; tarsi black. Fore wings woolly, especially towards the base. 
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 
a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot’s collection. 
2. Lagoa pyxidifera. 
Testacea ; alee anticee lituris nonnullis fuscis nigrisque flexuosis 
discalibus. 
Phalsena pyxidifera, Abbot and Smith , Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. 
ii. 107, pi. 54. ' 
Georgia. 
Genus CAN DYBA. 
Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 
graciles, porrecti, caput superantes ; articulus 3us minutus, conicus. 
Antennas thorace multo longiores, late pectinatae, dimidio apicali 
serratas. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. Pedes sat validi ; 
tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus apicalibus longis. Alae breviusculae, 
latiusculae ; anticae apud costam subrectae, apice rotundatae, margine 
exteriore subobliquo. 
Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, 
slender, extending rather beyond the head ; third joint minute, 
conical. Antennae much longer than the thorax, deeply pectinated 
to less than half the length, serrated from thence to the tips. Ab- 
domen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately 
stout; hind tibiae with two long apical spurs. Wings rather short 
and broad. Fore wings nearly straight in front, rounded at the 
tips, slightly oblique along the exterior border; second inferior vein 
full twice further from the third than from the first; third about 
twice further from the fourth than from the second. 
