LE FIDO PTE BA HETEBOCEBA. 
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conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae slender, 
smooth. Abdomen very stout, quadrate at the tip, not extending 
beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth ; spurs rather short. Fore 
wings rounded at the tips, slightly marked and minutely speckled 
with brown, this hue forming two or three transverse indistinct 
incomplete undulating lines ; discal dot black, transverse, elongated ; 
marginal points blackish ; costa and exterior border very slightly 
convex, the latter rather oblique. Length of the body 3 lines; of 
the wings 10 lines. 
1 a — d . North America. From Mr. Carter’s collection. 
76. Penthina tbans MIS SANA. 
Mas . Albida ; palpi nigro bifasciaii ; thorax fascia nigro-fusea ; 
alee anticee fuscee , litums albidis, fascia interiore strigisque 
duabus exterioribus connexis albidis fusco conspersis , striga 
1, 2a ramulum apad angulum interiorem emittente , linea mar - 
ginali albida ; posticce cinereee. 
Near P. dealbana. Male. — Whitish. Palpi porrect, with two 
black bands, shorter than the breadth of the head; second joint broadly 
fringed; third conical, very minute. Thorax with a blackish brown 
band. Abdomen extending beyond the hind wings. Tibia? and tarsi 
with brown bands. Fore wings brown, hardly acute, with various 
whitish marks ; a whitish brown-speckled baud before the middle, and 
two exterior broad whitish brown-speckled streaks, which are con- 
nected towards the costa ; first streak extending along the costa and 
containing some brown oblique costal marks ; second extending to the 
interior angle and emitting a branch to the interior border; mar- 
ginal line whitish; exterior border hardly oblique. Hind wings 
cinereous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 
a . Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Bedman’s collection. 
77. Penthina ochueoalbana. 
Fcera. Cinereo-nigra ; caput albidum ; alee anticce strigis trans- 
versis latis atris , lituris coslalibus basi albidis dimidio apicali 
albido nebulas ochraceas iituras costales niqras liturasque mar - 
ginales subochraceas includente ; posticce cinerece. 
Allied to P. ochreoleucana. Female.— Cinereous-black. Head 
whitish. Palpi whitish, slightly decumbent, not extending beyond 
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