This insect is evidently the type of a distinct genus from any hitherto described, especially distinguished by the lively colours of the wings, the produced posterior angle of the anterior pair, and the form of the palpi.
ENDROMIS RHODOPE.
Plate [XXII]. fig. 3.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Bombycidæ.
Genus. Endromis, Ochs. Germar. Dimorpha, Hübn. Phalæna (Bombyx), (Drury.)
Endromis Rhodope. Alis albis pellucidis; strigis duabus undulatis parallelis submarginalibus, maculisque nonnullis discoidalibus anticarum virescentibus. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
Syn. Phalæna (Bombyx) Rhodope, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Habitat: Brazil, "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" (Drury's MSS.).
Upper Side. Antennæ pectinated. Thorax and abdomen dark-brown, with some faint whiteish marks. Wings transparent white, having two rows of greenish crescents running along the external edges, the anterior wings having some faint marks of the same kind in the middle also. The anterior edges are of a yellow hue.
Under Side. Palpi white. Tongue not observed. Legs, breast, and abdomen white. Anus dark-brown. Wings coloured as on the upper side; the posterior ones having two brown spots on each near the abdominal corners. Margins of the wings entire.