420 NOCTTJTDJ5. 



to apex; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiae fringed 

 with long hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from just beluw 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 middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Aucula.) Antennas in both sexes bipectinate, with rather short 

 branches to apex. 



A. Hind wing with the orange patch broad and extending to 



well below siibmedian fold jusioides. 



B. Hind wdug with the orange patch narrow and not extending 



to below submedian fold buprasia. 



4890. Aucula josioides. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 4.) 



Auculajodoid.es, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 253 (1862) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 381. 



2 . Head and thorax chocolate-red mixed with white hairs ; 

 palpi and legs black mixed with white, the fore coxae ochreous 

 white ; pectus in front orange ; abdomen black. Fore wing 

 chocolate -red irrorated with bluish -white scales ; a diffused 

 yellowish patch beyond the cell extending to vein 2 and to the 

 postmedial line, which is indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing orange with 

 broad black terminal band with sinuous inner edge, expanding 

 at costa to before middle and on inner margin to near base. 

 Underside of fore wing with orange fascia on inner margin and 

 curved band from costa beyond middle to tornus, expanding from 

 below costa to vein 3. 



Bah. Brazil, Petropolis {Rev. B. Clark), 1 $ , Eio Janeiro. 

 Exp. 56 millim. 



4891. Aucula buprasia. 



Leiosoma buprasium, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 300 (1897). 



c? . Head and thorax deep cbocolate-red ; antennas black-brown ; 

 palpi and legs black irrorated with white scales, the coxae, femora, 



Fig. 199. — Aucula buprasia, $ . }. 



and tibiae fringed with ochreous-white hair ; abdomen black, the 

 anal tuft orange. Fore wing deep chocolate-red irrorated w r ith 

 blue-white scales on terminal half ; a diffused yellowish patch 



