LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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Male. Brick-red. Vertex whitish. Legs with whitish dots. 
Wings very thinly and minutely black-speckled; two zigzag ob- 
lique lines which are almost obsolete and hardly darker than the 
ground hue, but are distinguished by white points ; a black discal 
whitish-bordered point. Fore wings with a large costal subapical 
whitish spot, which is contiguous on its inner side to a white costal 
point. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 
a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson’s collection. 
Genus 46. BROTIS. 
Corpus sat robustum. Frons subfasciculata. Proboscis valida. 
Palpi robusti, porreeti aut subascendentes, caput superantes ; arti- 
culus 3us conicus, parvus. Pedes graciles, glabri ; tibiae posticae 
non incrassatae, calcaribns longis. Alae robustae, ainplae, integrae ; 
anticae elongatae, acutee, margine exteriore recto perobliquo ; posticae 
abdomen superantes, margine exteriore convexo vix dentato, an- 
gulo interiore producto. Mas . — Antennae subpectinatae, apice 
simplices. Fcem . — Antennae simplices. 
Brotis, Hubn . Verz. Schm. 303. 
Sphacelodes, Guen. Phal. ii. 116. 
Body moderately stout. Front slightly tufted. Proboscis 
stout. Palpi stout, porrect or slightly ascending, extending rather 
beyond the head ; third joint conical, minute. Legs slender, 
smooth ; hind tibiae not incrassated ; spurs long. Wings robust, 
ample, entire. Fore wings elongated, acute ; exterior border 
straight, very oblique. Hind wings extending beyond the abdo- 
men, with the exterior border convex, hardly scolloped ; interior 
angle somewhat prominent. Male. — Antenna? slightly pectinated, 
simple at the tips; branches very serried. Female. — Antennae 
simple. 
This genus differs much from the other Ennomidce , but appa- 
rently still more from the other established families of the Geome- 
trites. It resembles the preceding genus, with the exception of the 
legs, which are quite different in structure. 
