I.E PI DO PIER A HETEROCERA. 
stn 
marginali albida denticulata , lunulis marginalibus nigris ; 
anticce vix acutce , lineis interiore et exteriore nigris angulosis , 
orbiculari et reniformi e puneto guttaque albidis ; postiece 
cinerece , lineis duabus diff'usis fuscis. 
Male. Cinereous-brown, slender, purplish-tinged, cinereous 
beneath. Palpi long, curved, compressed, pubescent, ascending 
high above the vertex; third joint acute, bare at the tip, much 
shorter than the second. Antennae setose, slightly thickened and 
hardly tufted at one-third of the length. Abdomen extending 
a little beyond the hind wings ; hind borders of the segments 
whitish. Legs smooth. Wings rather short and broad ; sub- 
marginal line whitish, denticulated ; marginal lunules black. 
Fore wings hardly acute; interior and exterior lines black, slight, 
zigzag ; orbicular and reniform marks represented by a whitish 
point and a whitish dot. Hind wings cinereous, with brown 
speckles, which form the interior and exterior lines. Length of the 
body 4J lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
Several American Herminice have the antennae of the male 
nodose, but not as they are incrassated in the preceding species. 
a. United States. Presented by £. Doubleday, Esq. 
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Bleptina Phanasgalis. 
Foem. Fusca , robusta , nigricante subconspersa ; palpi longi , gra- 
ciles , compressi , glabri , usque ad thoracem rejlexi , arliculo So 
lanceolato ; antennce graciles ; abdomen alas posticus paullo 
superans ; pedes glabri, vix robusti , tibiis intermediis supra 
nigris ; alee latiusculce , subpurpurascentes ; anticce apice 
rotundatce , lineis cinereis , lineis basali et interiore fusco mur- 
ginatis, lineis exteriore et submarginali undulatis, reniformi e 
squamis nigris ; postiece pallide cinerece , extus fuscce. 
Female. Brown, stout, minutely blackish speckled, cinereous 
beneath. Palpi long, slender, compressed, smooth, curved over the 
head to the fore part of the thorax; third joint lanceolate, much 
shorter than the second. Antennae slender. Abdomen extending a 
little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, hardly stout ; middle 
tibiae black above. Wings rather broad, not long, slightly purplish- 
tinged. Fore wings somewhat rounded at the tips; lines pale 
cinereous ; basal and interior lines brown-bordered, the latter 
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