LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
95 
Female . Yellow. Head, thorax and most of the abdomen 
fawn-colour. Palpi very short, hardly extending beyond the head ; 
third joint very minute. Legs slender. Wings minutely and in- 
distinctly speckled with brown, with a brown straight oblique line, 
which extends from nearly two-thirds of the length of the interior 
border of the hind wings, almost to the tips of the fore wings ; exte- 
rior border hardly angular; fringe ferruginous. Fore wings sub- 
falcate ; basal space fawn-colour, which hue is bounded by an an- 
gular brown line; space between the line and the exterior border 
wholly fawn-colour ; exterior border slightly excavated in front. 
Hind wings fawn-colour for half the space between the line and the 
exterior border. Var. [3. — Hind wings with the exterior part wholly 
yellow. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. 
a, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson’s collection. 
6. Gynopteryx? Numicusaria. 
Mas. Pallide murina , vix fermginosa ; antennce pectinatae , apice 
simplices ; tibiae posticce subdilatatae ; alee tinea recta obliqua 
ferruginea , lituris exterioribus pallide cinereis , margine exte- 
riore non flexo ; posticce abdomen longe superans , ferrugineo 
latissime marginatce. 
Male . Pale mouse-colour, with a slight ferruginous tinge, pale 
cinereous and without markings beneath. Antennae pectinated, 
except near the tips. Hind tibiae slightly dilated. Wings with a 
straight oblique ferruginous line, which extends from one-third of 
the length of the interior border of the hind wings to near the tips of 
the fore wings, where it is retracted and forms an acute angle; 
some pale cinereous exterior marks; fringe ferruginous ; exterior 
border slightly convex, neither bent nor angular. Hind wings ex- 
tending far beyond the abdomen, very broadly-bordered with ferru- 
ginous. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 
a. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 
7. Gynopteryx? Gaurusaria. 
Fcem. Cervina, subtus ochracea ; corpus subtus pallide cinereum ; 
palpi brevissimi ; tibiae posticce vix incrassatae ; alee ferrugineo 
confertissime conspersae , lineis duabus ferrugineis rectis paral - 
telis, puncto discali nigro , lineis duabus fuscis exterioribus in - 
comp Letts subarcuatis vix obliquis ; anticae costa apicem versus 
concava nigro notata , margine exteriore convexo. 
