LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
1765 
Male. Body thick. Palpi porrect, pilose, hardly stout, not 
extending 1 beyond the head. Antenna? deeply pectinated, a little 
longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending nearly as far as the 
hind wings. % Legs stout, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with two very 
minute apical spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings straight in 
front, angular at the tips, straight and rather oblique along the ex- 
terior border; second inferior vein nearly thrice further from the 
third than from the first. 
Lonomia VENUSTa. 
Mas. Cervina, subtus testacea ; antenna testacea; thorax antice 
flavescens) ala apud margines testacea, f asciis linear ibus f us- 
cescentibus ; antica macula discali alba fusco marginaia , siib - 
tus apud costam obscure cervina macula discali fusca ; postica 
gutta discali fusca. 
Male. Bright fawn-colour, testaceous beneath. Antenna? tes- 
taceous. Thorax pale yellow in front. Legs testaceous beneath. 
Wings testaceous beyond the very slender curved exterior brownish 
bands which are interrupted beneath; the outer one is almost obso- 
lete above, as is also the inner one beneath. Fore wings with a 
white discal spot, which has a brown central dot, is bordered 
with brown, and is wholly brown beneath, where the space about it 
and towards the costa is dark fawn-colour. Hind wings with a 
brown discal dot, which is darkest beneath. Length of the body 10 
lines; of the wings 32 lines. 
a. Chili. From Mr. Children’s collection. 
Lonomia Cybele. 
Ala concolores fulva, fusco punctata striga nigra , antica maculis 
tribus , postica unica fenestratis. 
Phalsena Penelope, Crain. Pap. Exot. i. 70, pi. 45, f. A. 
Bombyx Cybele, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins . v. 36, 43. 
Cayenne. Surinam. 
Lonomia Achelous. 
Ala ferruginea, omnes fascia anticaque puncio albis. 
Bombyx Achelous, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 172, 25; Mant. Ins. ii. 110, 
28. Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. v. 34, 28. 
Phalaena Achelous, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 22, pi. .111, £ A. 
Phalsena-Bombyx Attacus Achelous, Gmel. ed. Sgst. IS' at. i. 5, 24uu, 
