LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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arete applieatis. Abdomen fasciculo apicali minimo. Pedes validi. 
Alae antic® acutae, costa subeonvexa, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 
Male . Body rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 
lanceolate, porrect, as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint 
conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 
apparently incrassated, being furnished with short compact squamous 
thick-set closely applied branches. Abdomen notextending beyond 
the hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs stout; spurs stout, 
moderately long. Fore wings acute ; costa and exterior border very 
slightly convex, the latter hardly oblique. 
Allied to Gauris. 
1. RhOBONDA GAURTSANA. 
Mas. Obscure ochracea ; antennee purpurea ; abdominis segmenta 
nigro marginata ; ala antica disco purpurascente-nigra , atomis , 
plaga costall fasciaque exteriore subochraceis, lineis tribus 
ochraceis , 2 a valde undulata , 3a marginali ; postica ochracea y 
fascia jlexa subinterrupta nigra. 
Male. Dull ocbraceous. Body yellowish beneath. Antennae 
metallic purple. Abdomen with a black band on the hind border 
of each segment. Legs ocbraceous, with black bands. Fore wings 
purplish black, except towards the base ; speckles dull ochraceous, 
scattered over the wing, and forming by their confluence a costal 
patch and an exterior band ; three bright ochraceous transverse 
lines; first interior; second most deeply undulating; third mar- 
ginal ; fringe purplish. Hind wings bright ochraceous, with a broad 
black submarginal band, which is nearly interrupted in the middle, 
and is there bent and extends to the base ; space along the interior 
border blackish, speckled with ochraceous ; fringe cupreous. Length 
of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
Genus 49. HEMONIA. 
Mas et feem. Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 
porrecti, graciles, caput perpaullo superantes ; articulus 3us linearis, 
2o non brevior. Antennas maris subpectinatae, foem. setulosae. 
Thorax squamosus. Abdomen sublineare, alas posticas non superans. 
Pedes breviusculi, sat validi, calcaribus longis. Alsc antic® latius- 
culte, rotundaUe, costa dilatata. 
