LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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72. Algeria Emphytiformis. 
Mas. Purpureo-nigra ; caput antice albo liirtum ; palpi subtus 
pilis fuscis fulvisque dense liirtum ; antenna ferruginea ; 
thorax maculis tribus fasciaque antica flavis ; abdominis seg- 
menta fiavo marginata ; fasciculus apicalis pilis no7inullis 
flavis ; pedes jlavo-ruji, femoribus nigris , tibiis nigrovittatis ; 
alee purpureo-cuprea , anticee apud discum rufo-jlavce ; postica 
rufo substrigatce basi limpidee. Foem. — Caput fiavo margi- 
natum; palpi flavi, subtus rufo hirti ; antenna ruf a , apice 
nigricantes ; abdominis fasciculus apicalis luteus , pilis non - 
nullis later alibus nigris ; tibia tota ruf a ; ala antica disco 
posticaque marginibus rufis. 
Male . Purplish black. Head with white hairs in front. 
Palpi thickly clothed beneath with rather long brown and tawny 
hairs. Antennae ferruginous. Thorax with a yellow band in front, 
and with a yellow spot at the base of each fore wing, and one at the 
tip of the scutellum. Abdomen with a yellow band on each seg- 
ment; apical tuft black, with a few yellow hairs. Legs red, partly 
yellow; femora black; tibiae with black stripes. Wings purplish 
cupreous. Fore wings yellow and partly red in the disk, which is 
interrupted by the usual band. Hind wings slightly streaked with 
red, limpid towards the base. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 
wings 10 lines. Female.— Head yellow in front and along the hind 
border. Palpi yellow, clothed beneath with reddish hairs. Antennae 
red, blackish towards the tips. Apical tuft of the abdomen luteous, 
with a few black hairs on each side. Tibiae wholly red. Fore 
wings with red disks. Hind wings mostly red along the borders. 
In this species and in jF. Odyneripennis the antennag of the 
male are more deeply pectinated than in the European species of 
the group Bembecia. 
a, 6. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 
73. tEgerta Hylotomiformis. 
Foem. Obscure fer rug ine a ; caput pilis flavido-albis ; palpi flavi ; 
antenna apice nigricantes ; thorax fasciculis duobus laterali - 
busflavis ; abdomen testaceo varium ; pedes fusci ; ala limpida , 
antica marginibus fasciaque, postica striga discali , purpureo- 
cupreis. 
