DiCHELACEKA SPARSA, FeiTl. 



Picea, thoracis vittis duabunferrugineis ornato, abdomine nigra, anlennis 

 ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus nigris alisfmcis, casta fulva, apice 

 margine postico macidisque septem cinereis. 



Body pitcliy: head clothed beneath with dark tawny hairs : eyes dark 

 bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facets very small, hut 

 slightly increasing in size towards the inner fore border : sucker black, 

 hairy ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pitchy, thickly clothed with short 

 black hairs : feelers dark ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with 

 black hairs; horn nearly as long as the third joint, much curved down- 

 ward ; compound joint black, hardly curved upward, shorter than the third 

 joint ; chest adorned with two dark ferruginous stripes, and having a fer- 

 ruginous tinge on each side ; a tuft of black hairs before the base of each 

 wing ; abdomen black, slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer 

 than the chest, clothed with short black hairs ; legs black ; foot-cushions 

 tawny : wings brown, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand 

 which is blackish, gray at the tips and along the hind border, adorned with 

 seven pale gray spots of various size, one on each areolet ; wing-ribs 

 and veins mostly black ; curve of the tip cross-vein distinct ; scales gray, 

 with dark tawny borders ; poisers pitchy, with tawny knobs. Length of 

 the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Brazil. 



SCEPSIS. 



Silvio affinis : ocelli distinct! : antenna) parvae, simplices : ala; nervi 

 subcostalis angulus ramuluni lougum demittens. 



Scepsis nivalis, Plate 2, fig. 7. 



Alba, thoracis littis tribus Jlavn-albis or nalo, abdominis segmentnrum utar- 

 ginibus poslicis fulvis, antennis j)iccis basi fulvis, pedibus fulris, alis 

 albis. 



Body black, but wholly adorned with a white covering, clothed with 

 white hairs which are mostly beneath : a slight tawny tinge in front of the 

 eyelets which arc black : eyes bronze-black, jKirted al)ove by a very broad 



