DIAMTJXA. 653 



208. Diamuna severa. 

 Phalana severa, Cram. I'ap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). 



5 . Deep red-brown ; pectus and raid and hind femora and 

 tibiae orange ; abdomen black. Fore wing slightly irrorated witli 

 silvery blue : traces of an antemedial erect lino below the cell ; the 

 postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by l)lLiish on outer 

 side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing 

 deep orange, with black terminal band with curved inner edge. 

 L'liderside ot fore wing with orange postmedial band from costa to 

 below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. 



Hah. SuKiN.vM ; Amazons, 11. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $. Exp. ")(> 

 millim. 



*209. Diamuna hesperina. 



Darceta hesperina, Ilerr.-Scbiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 13, f. .")24 (18.")0;. 



5 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-brown ; antenna? blackish ; 

 mid and hind femora and tibiae fringed with orange hair ; abdomen 

 black-brown. Fore wing deep chocolate, irrorated with blue-white 

 scales on basal inner area, on costal area before the postmedial line, 

 and on terminal area ; a waved double pale-brown almost medial 

 line, almost obsolete except from cell to inner margin ; a large 

 indistinct rcniform spot ; a double grey-brown postmedial line 

 strongly excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing 

 orange ; a broad black-brown terminal band running inwards on 

 costa to before middle and on inner margin to base on upperside 

 and to before middle on underside ; a diffused black patch some- 

 times present below middle of cell. 



Hah. Bkazil, Sta. Catherina, Coll. Staudinger. Exp. oG millim. 



210. Diamuna proserpina. 



PIialcsna-Noctiia proserpina. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 239, pi. 399, I (1782). 

 Darceta hesperina, Herr.-Sehjiff. Auasereur. Su-lmiett. if. 525, 52(i (1850). 



Fig. 287. — Diamuna proserpina, S ■ \- 



S . Deep red-brown ; pectus and legs with some fulvous hair ; 

 abdfimen black. Foro wing irrorated witli bluo-wliite ; an oldique 

 medial olive-brown band from cell to inimr margin rounded abovo ; 

 a postmedial olive-brown line on a whitc-irroratod ground, deiincd 



