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Hete. Astarte. Alls anticis viridi-cinereis, strigis tvansversis lunu- 

 laque central! ferrugineis ; macula juxta apicem lunata alba. 

 (Alar. lat. 2 imc.) 



Head ash-colour ; antennae ocliraceous : thorax varied with ash-co- 

 lour and purplish brown, the latter predominating on the disk, the 

 former on the sides. 



Anterior wings pale ash, tinged with greenish ; an abbreviated trans- 

 verse striga near the base, a short longitudinal vitta immediately below 

 it, a duplex rather indistinct transverse striga before the middle, a 

 central lunule and a series of five small lunules on the outer margin 

 ferruginous. Beyond the middle is a striga composed of slender fus- 

 cous lunules followed by a large white crescent, of which one extre- 

 mity touches the apex of the wing, the other reaches the second branch 

 of the radical nervure near its termination ; the inner margin of this 

 crescent is bordered with ferruginous, beyond which a sub-plumbeous 

 spot extends to the outer margin of the wing. The base of the wing 

 is pale ash approaching to white, as are also a large sub-quadrate spot 

 on the costa before the central lunule, three or four minute costal spots 

 near the apex and a small ill- defined spot near the anal angle. Cilia 

 grey. Posterior wings silvery white, slightly clouded on the margins 

 with fuscous ; anal angle with a fuscous spot. Cilia nearly white. 



Abdomen ash-coloured, paler on the sides ; a fuscous spot on the 

 back near the base. 



I captured several specimens of this insect, as stated above, at St. 

 John's Bluff, all which were males. The female, according to Abbot, 

 has the striga^ rather more distinct, and those parts of the anterior 

 wings which are white in the male, of a greenish ash-colour, the ground 

 colour being browner. 



The larva is green, dotted thickly with red on the sides. The back 

 of the head is marked by two short black streaks, from which spring 

 two fine red lines bordered with yellow, which diverge on reaching 

 the fourth segment, and soon after apjjroximating are continued to the 

 stylifomi anal prolegs. The space enclosed between these two lines is 

 yellow, with two short red lines on the eighth and ninth segments. — 

 The fourth and succeeding segments have a yellow line immediately 

 below the spiracles, which is bordered on each side by a row of dis- 

 tinct red dots, except on the three last segments. Pupa nearly black. 



Genus. — Lochm.eus, Douhlcday. 



Maxilla) moderate, as long as the thorax : labial ]ndpi porrect, 



