4-2 NOCTl uvr. 



- 13. Aucula magnifies (Plate CXLVI. 6g. 5.) 



Schaus, Trans. Am. F.ni. Soc ssx. p. 160 (1904). 



2 . Head and thorax black-brown with some white hairs, 

 especially on head ; tegulse with some deep rod ; fore tibiae with 

 ■white streaks above : abdomen black-brown with some white hairs 

 on ventral surface. Fore wing deep chocolate-red thickly irrorated 

 with bluish white: subbasal line white, curved, from eosta to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line red defined on inner side by white except 

 in cell, waved from cell to inner margin : claviform represented by 

 a short white streak: orbicular and reniform black with a few 

 white scales on them, the former round, a small V-shaped white 

 mark between them, the latter defined by white on enter side and 

 followed by a whitish patch : postmedial line red defined on outer 

 side by a white band except just below vein 2. angled outwards at 

 vein 7. excurved at middle, bent inwards below vein 2 and slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 1 : a waved red subterminal line defined 

 by white on inner and outer sides, touching termen in the inter- 

 spaces between veins 7 and 2: a tine black terminal line; cilia 

 chequered black and white. Hind wing pale yellow, the costal 

 and terminal areas broadly and the inner margin black-brown with 

 a reddish tinge; a slight brown discoidal bar; the inner edge of 

 terminal band incurved at submedian fold; slight terminal white 

 striae at the veins ; eilia chequered black-brown and white. Under- 

 side of fore wing dark reddish brown ; the basal area yellowish ; an 

 oblique yellowish white postmedial band incurved at discal fold and 

 ending at vein 2. some white on eosta towards apex : hind wing 

 with irregular diffused triangular brown patch from eosta to lower 

 angle of cell, the inner edge of terminal bard irregular. 



Bab. Brazil, Petropolis, typet ? in U.S. Nat. Mus. -Cap. 

 54 millim. 



Sect. III. {Arpia.) Antenna of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with whitish costal fascia expanding triangularly 



betore middle am! into a hook beyond middle Janeiro. 



B. Fore wing without whitish costal fascia SttHata. 



\. Aucula janeira. 



ia Janeiro,, Schaus, J. N.Y. Enfc Soc. iv. p. 148 f!896). 



s marc/inalis, Koths. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 812, pi. 7. f. 10 (,1897). 



J . Head grey : palpi with chocolate band on 2nd joint ; sides 

 of irons chocolate; antennas black; thorax chocolate-red with 

 broad dorsal grey stripe and grey stripes on teguhe : pectus grey ; 

 the legs blackish mixed with grey; abdomen black-brown, the 

 ventral surface greyi^t towards base. Fore wing chocolate-red: 

 the costal area white irrorated with brown and red, ending in a 

 point before apex, triangularly produced at middle to below cell and 

 connected with inner margin near tornus by a fine very oblique 



