1891.] 315 



Jlah. : Valdivia. In coll. Meflin.T. 



(? ? . Fore-wings on the upper-side of a smoky colour, tliickly marked with 

 fine black dashes ; two black and T(>ry acute angled lines across the centre of the 

 wing, and which enclose a dark brown band, apical part of wing same colour ; 

 near the apex is a lunulated white dash running from the costal border inwards 

 about 4 mm., and from the lower extremity of this dash to the outer angle the wing 

 is clouded with blackish patches, and also on inner border, between the base and 

 inner angulated line ; under-side black, with the inner border smoky-piceous ; basal 

 third of wing, and a large oblong patch on outer third yellowish, inclining to red ; 

 white apical lunulated dash of upper surface ; hiud-wings, on the upper-side, the 

 basal two-thirds of a fiery-red colour, with a curved black stripe running from the 

 abdominal border (just above anal angle) to near the centre of wing, and a black 

 ■^-shaped marking on the centre of upper border, outer third of wing black, wider 

 on the upper than on tlie abdominal border ; the under-side is of the same pattern 

 as above, but the colouring is brighter, and at the base inclines more to yellow ; the 

 black outer border is bisected by a curved dentate yellowish band from upper to 

 abdominal border; thorax and abdomen smoky, with a few white hairs o.n thorax ; 

 body below drab coloui'ed. The female is paler and duller in colour than the male, 

 and the abdominal border of hind-wings smoky on both sides. 



This fine insect is in the collection of Don Jose Toribio Medina, 

 who obtained it in Valdivia, Southern Chili. 



At first sight it looks very much like Catocala electa, of Europe. 



SCOTOPTEEYX ? GRAPHICA, Sp. UOV. 

 Alls supra cervinis ; anticis cum linea tortuosa in tertio hasilari, e alia 

 in tertio externa nigris ; vence alhidce, margine anteriore venisque sub-viridi 

 et nigra maculosis ; maculaque hasilari et macula discoidali nigris ; posticis 

 supra, cum linea tortuosa in tertio externa nigra; vence albidce, margine 

 ahdominali viridi maculosa; infra, alee fumosce ; posticce in dimidio ahdo- 

 minali subalhida, lineaque anguloso in tertio externa et macula discoidali 

 nigris; caput viride ; thorax niveus, cum maculaque nigra in prothorace et 

 metathorace ; abdomen fumosum. Exp. alar., 61 mm. 



Hah. : Candelaria, in prov. Curico. In coll. Medinae. 

 Wings above of a fawn or stag colour, fore-wings with two black sinuous lines, 

 one across the basal and the other at the outer third, from costal to inner border ; a 

 black discal oblongish spot ; veins white ; on basal third is a large clouded patch 

 composed of black and brown atoms, a brown stripe across the centre of wing just 

 inside outer sinuous black line ; at outer angle a large snow-white patch, from whose 

 upper border a lunulated white line runs midway (to costal border) between black 

 sinuous line and outer border of wing ; all the wing, especially base and costa, 

 studded with sap-green atoms and thickly speckled with black dots, more conspicu- 

 ous on central third of wing, which is of a lighter colour than the rest ; there are 

 also (irregularly placed) a few clouded white patches ; hind-wings with a black 

 sinuous line from abdominal to upper border, and meeting outer line of fore-wings, 

 as also the brown stripe, but this is not so pronounced as in fore-wings, a largo black 



