148 CATALOGUE OF 



alas poslicas vix superans. Pedes robusti, pilosi; tibiae posticsB 

 caicavibiis quatuor longis. Alae latiusculae ; anticss apud costain 

 vix convexae, apice rotuudatge, margine exteriore mediocriter 

 obliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long-. Palpi thick, 

 pilose, ascending ; third joint very minute. Antennse very minutely 

 setose-serrate, much more than hall" the length of the body. Abdo- 

 men hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose; 

 hind tibise with four long spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings 

 hardly convex in front, rounded at the tips, moderately oblique and 

 indistinctly convex along the exterior border ; second and third in- 

 ferior veins united at the base ; fourth about twice further from the 

 third than the first is from the second. 



1. B.ECULA GaLLOPAVO. 



]Mas. Cervina ; thorax glauco-viridi conspersus ; ahdomen sub- 

 cinereum ; ahs anticce nigro consperscB, ex parte albidce, pur- 

 purea ornatce, vitta arcuata nigra, apud costam viridi-cerrime, 

 apice margineque exteriore sordide alhidis strigis jnacuUsque 

 viridi-fulvis ; posticce minus varice. 

 Male. Fawn-colour. Plumes of the thorax, except in front, 

 fringed with glaucous-green. Abdomen somewhat cinereous. Fore 

 wings greenish fawn-colour in front, dingy whitish and with 

 greenish fawn-coloured streaks and spots, and with darker dots 

 about the tips and along the exterior border ; disk partly whitish in 

 the exterior part, speckled with black, adorned with a curved black 

 stripe, and with purphsh reflections. Hind wings much like the 

 fore wings in colour, iDut without the black stiipe, and with very few 

 black speckles. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 22 

 lines. 

 a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



2. B^CULA? OUPENTIA. 



Cervina ; alee anticce fuscce, guttia nonnullis maculis apud margi- 

 nem interiorem fasciisque trihus albis, fascia submarginali 

 postice contracta ; posticce pallidiores, basi cervina;. 



Phaloena Cupentia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 103, pi. 252, f. E. 

 CoenipetaCupenlia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 260, 2557. 



Surinam. 



