420 NOCITJID-i:. 



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

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

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

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from just below 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.) Antenna3 in both sexes bipectiuate, witli rather short 

 brandies to apex. 



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



well below siibmedian fold josioides. 



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



to below submedian fold buprasia. 



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



Au€ula josioides, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 253 (1862) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 381. 



5 . Head and thorax chocolate-red mixed Avith white hairs ; 

 palpi and legs black mixed with w'hite, the fore coxa3 ochreous 

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

 chocolate - red irrorated with bluish -w^hite scales ; a difiused 

 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, tlien 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 toruus, expanding from 

 below costa to vein 3. 



Hah. Brazil, Petropolis {liev. II. Clarlc), 1 5 , P'io Janeh-o. 

 Exp. 56 millim. 



4891. Aucula buprasia. 



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



S . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; antennae black-brown ; 

 palpi and legs black irrorated wuth white scales, the coxiE, femora, 



Fig. 199. — Aucula buprasia, <f . }. 



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

 anal tuft orange. Fore wing deep chocolate-red irrorated with 

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



