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one on each border before the middle, and the largest one extending hind- 

 ward from the tip to the inner angle ; the "testaceous spots are smaller and 

 less numerous than the white spots which mostly enclose them. Hind wings 

 luteous. ' 



Jamaica. 



* H. strigosa, Walker. Head and thorax brown above. Head whitish 

 about the eyes, and with a whitish band on the vertex. Palpi brown, whitish 

 beneath and toward the tips. Antenna whitish, with two brown bands. Thorax 

 with four whitish stripes ; fore part bordered with reddish white, and with 

 one stripe of the same color. Abdomen crimson, black at the tip, and with 

 a row of black spots along each side ; under side whitish, with four rows of 

 black spots. Legs whitish ; femora and tibiae striped with brown ; tibia? 

 striped with red. Fore wings brown, with very numerous whitish streaks. 

 Hind wings almost limpid, with more or less broad brownish borders. 



St. Domingo. 



* H. cingulata, Walker, 1710. Red. Abdomen with black bands, 

 which are interrupted toward the base. Fore wings thickly mottled with in- 

 distinct gray marks. Hind wings a little paler than the fore wings. 



Male. Palpi with brown tips. 



Female. Palpi with black tips. Disk of the thorax slightly brownish. 



Jamaica and South America. 



Hypercomfa, Stephens. 



Fore wings usually with two subcosto-marginal nervules from the disk and 

 and a costal cell formed by the second branch, sometimes much contracted 

 and narrow and placed above the discal vein or exterior to the disk ; in this 

 case there is but one marginal nervule from the disk. The post-apical nervule 

 arises either about midway between the end of the costal cell and the apical 

 nervulet or from the end of the cell. The subcosto-inferior and discal arise 

 at a common point, the latter curved. Median vein 4 branched, the posterior 

 nervule remote from the penultimate branch. Hind wings broader than the 

 fore wings ; neuration arctiaeform, the subcostal becoming furcate exterior to 

 the origin of the discal vein. 



Head moderate, free, smooth ; with ocelli. Face and vertex narrow. Eyes 

 rather large and prominent. Antennae slender, filiform and ciliated in both 

 sexes. Labial palpi somewhat exceeding the clypeus, rather porrected but 

 subascending, smooth and toward the base pilose ; the middle and basal joint 

 nearly equal, the terminal joint quite short and ovate. Tongue as long or 

 nearly as long as the thorax beneath. 



Body slender. Thorax smooth. Patagia cylindrical or revolute, scarcely 

 ascending above the vertex and pilose. Breast and abdomen smooth. Legs 

 rather slender ; the tibial spur of the anterior concealed ; hind tibiae with four 

 moderate spurs, longer than the hind femora. 



Table of Species. 

 Hind wings white. 



( Fore wings with white spots, Var. L e c o n t e i . 



( Fore wings with two browu stripes and a 



subterminal band, militaris. 



Fore wings with a white stripe, 



with two white spots, c o n t i g u a . 



" with a white subapical band, confinis. 



Fore wings with the costa yellowish or 



brownish, fulvicosta. 



Hind wings luteous. 



Fore wings brown, with white spots and 



stripes, C 1 y m e n e . 



Fore wings yellowish, margined with 



brown, interrupto-marginata 



I860.] 



