ANTAKCTIA. 445' 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rcl joint naked and extending beyond the frons. 



A. Vertex of head and teguhu yellowish white vancgafa. 



B. Vertex of head and tegiihe not wiiite. 



a. Fore wing with obscure siibterniinal line. 



a^. Fore wing with at most a black point in middle of 

 cell ; cJ with the disk whitish on underside ; hind 

 ■wing yellowish, witii diffused maculate band on 

 terminal area Jusca. 



b^. Fore wing with distinct black spot in middle of cell; 

 (j" witii the disk dark on underside; hind wing 

 brown, paler towards base lateralis. 



b. Fore wing without subtermiual line. 



«\ Fore wing with pale streaks on the median nervules. cosfata. 

 b^. Fore wing with dark streaks on tlie veins. 



a'-. Fore wing with the ground-colour black-brown ... honora. 

 b'-. Fore wing witli the ground-colour dull rufous ... fcrvida. 

 c^. Fore wing with the veins coucolorous. 



«^. Fore wing with diffused fuscous streaks on median 



nervure and vein 1 ancfvstij^eimis. 



b-. Fore wing without dark streaks on median nervure 

 and vein 1. 

 a^. Fore wing with dark discoidal lunule. 



a*. Hind wing dark brown pcraimilis. 



6'. Hind wing whitish paula. 



b^. Fore wing without dark discoidal lunule. 

 a*. Fore wing with the costa not white. 



a'. Abdomen dorsally brown rudis. 



Z>'. Abdomen dorsally orange sericea. 



6*. Fore wing with the costa white rulpina. 



2028. Antarctia variegata. (Plate XLIX. fig. 13.) 

 Motada variegata, Scliaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 143 (ISOti). 



S . Palpi and frons black-brown ; vertex of head and tegulge 

 white ; antennae blackish, the shaft white above ; thorax blackish, 

 largely mixed with white ; femora orange above ; abdomen dorsally 

 black and white, laterally dull orange, ventrally whitish. Fore 

 wing black-brown, thickly irrorated with white ; the base of inner 

 area pale ; white spots in middle and end of cell ; a white point 

 followed by a short streak in middle of submedian fold ; vein 1 

 streaked with white ; a more or less developed spot on middle of 

 inner margin ; an obscure black discoidal spot ; a white postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 5, then interrupted and incurved 

 from vein 2 to inner margin ; a very irregular dentate sul)t(>rrainal 

 lino bent outwards between veins G and 4, then incurved to vein '6 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with white ; a crenulate white terminal line. Hind wing white ; 

 a fuscous discoidal lunule ; some fuscous subterminal spots toward 

 apex and tornus, and a slight terminal line from ape.x to vein 2. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 S . Exp. 34-44 miUim. Type f ^^ 

 in Coll. Schaus. 



2029. Antarctia fusca. (Plate XLIX. fig. 15.) 



Massin/ta. fusca, Wlk. vii. 1712 (185()) ; Kirby, Cat. Hct. p. 835. 

 Antarctin multifarinr. Burm. Dcscr. Ee]). Arg. v. p. \h'l (1878); Kirbv . 

 Cat. Het. p. i-lh. 



