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each side of the upper appendage. Fore wings lurid, here and 

 there reddish, with many black spots and dots, some of them con- 

 fluent. Hind wings lurid, brown for nearly half the length from 

 the lips; veins red. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 15 

 lines. 

 a. Port Natal. From Mr. Plant's collection. 



Genus POIOCERA, Cat. Horn. p. 290. 



PoiOCERA PERSPICILLATA, p. 291. 



Three pale varieties of this insect appear like distinct species. 

 The first has the head and the thorax blackish ferruginous ; veins of 

 the fore wings ferruginous, testaceous in the reticulated part, and the 

 not reticulated part contains many indistinct lurid spots. The 

 second variety is still more different; the head and the thorax are 

 pale testaceous ; the disk of the abdomen is black hindward ; the 

 fore wings are pale lurid, tinged with green along the custa, and 

 with a reddish tinge in the reticulated part, which is pale brown, 

 with several ]>ale spots; the lurid part^with many minute brown 

 streaks; the costa with black marks. In the third variety, which is 

 Mexican, the testaceous spots of the fore wings are much more dis- 

 tinct, and the veins are tawny ; the lateral spots of the hind wings 

 are obsolete. 



PoiOCERA ATOMARIA. 



Fusca ; vertex brevissimvs ; frons plana, sub tuber culata, septem 

 carinata, margine non elevato ; fades subcarinata ; thorax 

 subcarinalus ; abdomen late ritfum, subtus nigrum ; alee an- 

 ticce viridi confertissime guttata, fasciis duabus exterioribus 

 connexis albidis, apice pallide fusco albido guttata ; posiicce 

 vitrece, nigro venosa. 



Brown, Vertex very short ; front flat, minutely tuberculate, 

 with seven slight and incomplete ridges; border not elevated; 

 sides and fore border hardly concave ; face and thorax very slightly 

 keeled. Abdomen bright red above, black beneath. Fore wings 

 with very numerous pale green dots ; two whitish exterior bands, 

 connected in the middle ; apical part pale brown, with a few 



