AOHATODES. 



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antennae of male ciliated and with ridge of scales on base of shaft; thorax 

 clothed with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of long scales; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of large 

 crests, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments and large spreading anal tuft. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 

 crenulate veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; sees. 



B. Hind wing dark brown juwnce. 



4326. Achatodes zese. 



Gcrrtyna ;ra>. Harr. Ins. inj. to Veg. 1st ed. p. 319 (1841); id. Flint ed. 



p. 439, pi. 7. f. 9; Smith, 'Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 179. 

 Achatodes sandix, Ghien. Noct. i. p. 132, pi. 6. f. 4 (1852). 



Head and thorax fiery red mixed with pale yellow ; palpi and 

 sides of frons dark brown ; tegulte with brown patches at sides ; 

 patagia with brown upper edges ; pectus and legs dark brown, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally fiery red, ventrally 

 dark brown. Fore wing with the costal half grey-brown suffused 

 with fiery red at base, in end of cell and at apex, the inner half 

 grey with some red suffusion at base, middle and termen, the veins 

 with dark streaks ; subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, with 

 black point on its inner edge at vein 1, nearly erect ; claviform 

 small, defined by brown ; orbicular small, narrow, oblique, with 

 brown centre and grey anuulus ; reniform grey, its centre defined 

 by brown, rather oblique ; an indistinct oblique waved red line 



Fig. 7. — Achatodes sea, $ . 



from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown 

 defined by grey on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 6, then dentate and produced to a double series of 

 black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some grey points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellow, from costa to veiu 6 

 and bent outwards at vein 7, then represented by a series of slight 

 yellow spots on red streaks in the interspaces, somewhat excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark spots ; cilia brown with 



