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DICHROMA HISTRIONAL1S. 

 PLATE XXX. Fig. 2. 



The head is white, with a patch of fulvous on the 

 crown ; the thorax white, ornamented with fulvous. 

 The fore wings are of a splendid golden fulvous 

 hue, ornamented with many silvery white marks, 

 strongly relieved by being edged with black scales ; 

 the fore margin of the wings is also white. At the 

 base of the fore wings are two divergent white bars, 

 the anterior of which is strongly forked ; the upper 

 bar of the fork abbreviated and succeeded by an 

 oval patch ; across the middle of the wing, in an 

 oblique direction, are four oval white patches, the 

 anterior being, as it were, duplicated ; then follows 

 an oblique white bar, broken in the middle, from 

 the outside of which several straight white bars 

 extend to the outer margin of the wing. The hind 

 wings and abdomen are of a silvery white, slightly 

 shaded with brown. 



The expansion of the fore wings is twelve lines 

 and a half. 



