collected in Chili. 25 



Dalaca, Walk. 



88. Dalaca venosa. 



Hepialus venosus, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Chili,' 7, p. 70 ; 



pi. 4, fig. 6 (1854). 

 Dalaca nirjricornis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., 7, p. 1560 



(1856). 



One specimen. 



39. Dalaca subfervens, n. s. 



<? . Somewhat variable in tint, the markings also 

 varying in intensity ; primaries golden testaceous, some- 

 times with a faint reddish gloss ; with smoky brown 

 markings, or, in better defined specimens, brown, with 

 the markings testaceous as follows : costal border with a 

 number of spots, many of which are rounded or fusi- 

 form, and contain blackish j^upils ; a broad and very 

 irregular band commencing at the base, following the 

 median vein to the middle of the disc, but expanded so 

 as almost to fill the basal half of the interno-median 

 area, and at its outer extremity uniting with a series of 

 oblique confluent dashes, which run in a tapering series 

 to costa ; the whole of this testaceous band, from base 

 to costa, is ornamented with dots and short lines of 

 black ; its basal expanded portion is moreover bounded 

 on internal border by an oblique conspicuous black dash, 

 beyond which the border is more or less golden testaceous 

 in continuation of an external border of the same colour ; 

 the latter is ornamented with a submarginal and a 

 marginal series of blackish dots ; fringe pale testaceous ; 

 secondaries dull smoky grey, with a faint pinkish 

 reflection ; fringe pale testaceous ; thorax dark brown ; 

 antennae testaceous ; abdomen pale greyish brown ; under 

 surface of wings grey, sometimes with whitish fringe ; 

 body below sordid-white ; legs sometimes reddish. Ex- 

 panse of wings, 32 — 38 mm. 



? . Primaries more distinctly red than in any of the 

 males, the brown markings, or the brown intervals 

 between the markings, almost wholly lost, only indicated 

 by minute blackish-edged white dots scattered . here and 

 there over the wing ; secondaries nearly as in the male, 

 the grey a little bluer ; thorax redder than in any male ; 



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