LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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Male. Pale cinereous, with a slight testaceous tinge. Head 
and palpi brownish ; the latter broad, short, hardly ascending. 
Antennas pectinated, simple towards the tips. Wings broad, not 
long, minutely and irregularly speckled with black, with a slender 
oblique nearly straight exterior ferruginous line, which is marked by 
brown points; submarginal band brownish, diffuse, indistinct ; ex- 
terior border hardly bent; discal point black. Fore wings acute, 
hardly subfalcate; costa and exterior border convex, the latter 
hardly oblique. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 15 
lines. 
Brazil. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
Apicia significaria. 
Fcem. Cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes , subangulati , articulo 
3 o conico minimo ; tibice posticce vix incrassatce. ; aide amplce , 
linea exteriore fusca obliqua subrecta intus nigricante nebu- 
losa extus testaceo marginata , puncto discali nigro , linea un - 
dulata submarginali e punctis nigris ; anticce acutce , linea 
interior e angulata indistincta , litura discali angulata alba 
nigro marginata , costa basi convexa extus subconcava , mar - 
gine exteriore vixjlexo. 
Female. Fawn-colour, paler beneath. Palpi obliquely as- 
cending; third joint conical, less than one-fourth of the length of 
the second, with which it forms a slight angle. Hind tibiae hardly 
incrassated. Wings ample; exterior line brown, oblique, nearly 
straight, with a blackish shade on the inner side and concisely bor- 
dered with testaceous on the outer side ; a black discal point and 
an undulating row of submarginal black points. Fore wings acute, 
with an indistinct angular interior line ; exterior line angular near 
the costa ; an angular white partly black-bordered discal mark ; 
costa convex near the base, slightly concave exteriorly; exterior 
border hardly bent. Length of the body 5£ lines; of the wings 
15 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry’s collection. 
