386 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lejndoptera 



by an angulated line of the same colour ; an angulated 

 grey band crossing the wing before the middle, and edged 

 on both sides at costa with chocolate, but not below the 

 costal border ; a slightly irregular post-median chocolate 

 band ; a discal grey band, partly edged with chocolate, 

 and dividing a large apical triangular patch of that 

 colour ; three creamy white spots on the costa between 

 the bands ; fringe dark purplish grey ; secondaries bright 

 orange-red; basi-abdominal area sprinkled with grey 

 scales ; abdominal fringe greyish ; fringe towards anal 

 angle blackish ; body blackish, irrorated with pale brown 

 scales ; primaries below bright orange-red ; costal border 

 jDurplish brown, spotted at regular intervals with pale 

 yellow ; a broad purplish-brown apical patch ; fringe 

 dark shining slaty grey ; secondaries pale yellow washed 

 with pink, densely speckled with purplish brown ; a 

 disco-cellular spot, an irregularly sinuated discal line, 

 a<nd broad sinuated external border of the same colour ; 

 fringe slaty grey, varied (especially in the centre) with 

 reddish orange ; body pale sulphur-yellow, densely irro- 

 rated with grey. Expanse of wings, 22 — 221- mm. 



" Valparaiso, in August ; flies by day." — T. E.. 



The female has more yellow than the male in the 

 ground colour of the primaries above, and more red in 

 that of the secondaries below. 



There are two varieties of the species, one in which the 

 grey bands of the jn'imaries are replaced by flesh-pink 

 in the female, and almost obliterated by chocolate- 

 coloured scales in the male ; the other, in which the 

 entire insect is much smaller, and the post-median 

 chocolate band is narrower ; it measures 18 — 20 mm. 

 in expanse. 



OcHYRiA, Packard. 



69. Ochyria ignipennis, n. s. 



Allied to 0. ruhrosvfusata ; primaries above dark red- 

 dish brown, crossed by numerous undulated blackish 

 lines, with a narrow subbasal band, a broad angular 

 central belt, and a tapering discal band, dark brown, 

 limited by black lines, and partly edged externally by 

 cream-coloured undulated lines ; four white-centred sub- 

 marginal black spots ; a black marginal line interrupted 

 by the veins, and followed by a slender white line at the 



