FELTIA. — HRRMONASSA. 357 



ochreous points on them ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white ; the costal and terminal areas suffused 

 with fuscous, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white with fuscous line at 

 base ; the underside with slight postmedial series of black strice on 

 the veins. 



2 • Hind wing with the costal, inner, and terminal areas broadly 

 suffused with fuscous, 



Ab, 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing Avith the ground-colour 

 purplish red. 



Ab. 2. piuita-aretue. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground- 

 colour ochreous irrorated or suffused with black. 



Hab. Chile {Edmonds), 1 (^ , 1 $ type ; Falkland Is., Darwin 

 Harbour (Dale), 6 c^ , 1 $ , ( Valhntin) 7 c? , 6 $ ; Patagonia, 

 Punta Arenas, type t S punta-areiue in Mus. Stockholm ; Tierka 

 DEL FuEGO, type t carhoaifera in Mus. Paris. E.vp. 40-46 millim. 



Genus HERMONASSA. „ 



Type. 



/fe/-/«0M(7,<sff, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865) conslynafa. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and witii pointed tuft of hair at extremity, the 3rd long, naked ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennie ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibife spined ; 

 abdomen dorsally flattened. Fore wing long and narrow, the margins sub- 

 paralled, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 fr(nn cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked or from angle of cell. 



A. Hind wing luiiform brown. 



a. Fore wing red sinuafa. 



h. Fore wing dark brown cecilia. 



B. Hind wing pale, at least towards base. 



a. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins spilota. 



b. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. 



a^. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-green or suf- 

 fused in part with olive. Exp. 34-.38 millim. 

 a^. Fore wing with the anteniedial line bisecting the 



claviforra incisa. 



P. Fore wing with the antemedial line not bisecting the 



claviform lanceoJa. 



b^. Fore wing fuscons suffused with purple or rufous, 



rarely with olive. Exp. 32 millim. conMgnafa. 



c^. Fore wing pale reddish, /^.r/j. 36 millim clam. 



d}. Fore wing whitish. £x;p. 34 millim paUidula. 



631. Hermonassa sinuata. 



Hermnnaam. aiiiucita, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 353, pi. 38. f. a ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 197. 

 Hermonassa cuprina, Moore, Lap. Atk. p. 120 (1882). 



Head and thorax dark blood-red mixed with pale rufous ; abdomen 

 fuscous, the ventral surface blood-red. Fore wing blood-red, with 

 pale rufous streaks on the veins ; the subbasal line greyish 



