88 Am. r. walkku on iroMoriEnA 



tisqiie duahiis uigris, guttis diiabus fuscis; mesothorace vittis quin- 

 que (quatijor iiiterruptis) strigisque duabus intevruptis nigris; i»b- 

 dumine vittis qiiiuque fuscis inacularibus, fascia siibapicali nigra ; 

 operculis abdominis bis triente vix brevioiibus ; alis anticis guttis tri- 

 bus apiul veuas transversas guttisque septem submarginalibus nigvis. 

 Male. Testaceous. Head with a transverse hardly undulating black 

 line, which is dilated in the middle and includes the ocelli ; an entire 

 black line on the hind border j face with a short longitudinal black 

 streak, and with transverse black streaks along each side. Prothorax 

 with two black lines, which diverge from each other and are di- 

 lated towards the fore border and towards the hind border; a brown 

 dot on each side in the disk ; an exterior black dut on each siile near 

 the hind border; two black oblique lateral stripes. Mcsothorax with 

 live black strijjcs ; middle stripe entire ; inner pair widely inter- 

 rupted towards the hind border; outer pair interrupted in front, and 

 abbreviated near the hind border ; a black interrupted streak pro- 

 ceediu" from the fore border between the two inner and the two 

 outer stripes. Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum and with 

 five stripes of brown spots; basal s))()t of middle stripe black, large, 

 elongate conical ; a black subajncal band; two apical spines. Ven- 

 tral opercula extending to nearly two-thirds of the length of the ab- 

 domen. Tarsi black. "Wings pellucid ; veins ochraceous, partly black ; 

 an elongated blackish dot on each of the transverse veins from 

 the first to the third, and on each of the seven marginal veins. 

 Length of the body 11 lines, of the wings 38 liues. 

 Var. /3. Capite linea transversa, strigis transversis lateralibus lineaque 

 faciei nigris; prothorace lineis duabus obliquis, lituris duabus cla- 

 vatis vittisque duabus obliquis nigris; mesothorace vittis quinque 

 (una Integra) strigisque duabus nigris ; abdoniine vittis quinque ma- 

 cularibus fuscis ; operculis abdomine pauUo brevioribus. 

 F(£m. Prothorace punctis duobus nigris; mesothorace vittis exterioii- 



bus iuterruptis ; abdomine fascia subapiculi alba. 

 Head with a transverse undulating black line, which is dilated in the 

 middle, and includes the ocelli; a black Une on the hind border, in- 

 terrupted on each side ; face with a short longitudinal black line, 

 and with transverse black streaks along each side. Prothorax with 

 two black lines, which diverge from each other, and are dilated to- 

 wards the fore border and towards the hind border ; a black pyriform 

 mark on each side in the disk; two black oblique lateral htriiies; 

 sutures black. Mcsothorax with five black stripes, middle strij)e en- 

 tire ; inner ])air widely interrupted towards the hind border ; outer 

 pair slightly abbreviated near the hind border; two short black 

 streaks proceeding from the fore border between the two inner a»ul the 

 two outer stripes. Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and 

 vvith five stripes of brown spots; these stripes do not extend tu the 



