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cinereo-purpureis ; abdomine fasciis quatuor purpurascenti-cinereis, 

 ventre pedibusque albidis ; alls anticis vitta costali purpurea nigricante 

 conspersa, punctis duobus nigris, lineis tribus angulosis apud costam 

 nigris et retractis punctoque basali Isete rufis, fascia raarginali rufa 

 guttas canas includente. 

 Male. Bright luteous, paler beneath. Head, palpi and fore part of the 

 thorax cinereous-purple. Abdomen with some bright-red speckles on 

 each side of the base of the second segment, and with a purplish- 

 cinereous band on the fore border of each of the last four segments; 

 underside and legs whitish. Fore wings with a purple blackish-speckled 

 costal stripe, and with a broad irregular red marginal band, which in- 

 cludes a line of hoary dots ; a bright- red point at the base and three 

 bright-red zigzag lines, which are retracted and black near the costa ; 

 a black point between the first line and the second, and another be- 

 tween the second line and the third ; five white costal points near the 

 tip ; marginal lunules black ; fringe blackish cinereous, v/hite-bor- 

 dered : underside red, with four irregular black lines and a postmedial 

 black patch. Hind wings with an iri-egular antemedial red band 

 which contains an irregular white blackish-bordered line ; an exterior 

 blackish line and three more exterior lines composed of red points, 

 some of the points in the second line marked with blackish ; margi- 

 nal line red, with a blackish festoon ; fringe paler than that of the 

 fore wings : underside with three blackish denticulated lines, of which 

 the third is interrupted. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 



Hypena megaspila. Fcem. Obscure fusca; alis anticis cervinis, 

 purpurascenti-cinereo tinctis, plaga trigona maxima obscure fusca 

 albido marginata, linea exteriore fusca lineaque adhuc exteriore e litu- 

 ris parvis fuscis. 



Female. Dark brown, slender. Frontal tuft porrect, acute, very pro- 

 minent. Abdomen and underside dai-k cinereous. Legs slender. 

 Fore wings acute, fawn-colour, suffused with purplish cinereous ; a 

 very large dark-brown whitish-bordered triangular patch, which occu- 

 pies the whole costa except at the base and at the tip, and extends 

 neai-ly to the interior border ; a brown line nearly parallel to the outer 

 side of the patch, and an irregular more exterior line of small brown 

 marks; exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Lametia RETUSA. Foim. Ferrugineo-rufa ; palpis oblique ascenden- 

 tibus, vertieem longe superantibus ; abdomine subtus pallide luteo; alis 

 anticis chalybeo sufFusis, apice retusis, fascia marginali lata aurata; alis 

 posticis luteis, fascia marginali lata nigricante. 



Female. Ferruginous red. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending, rising much higher than the vertex. Abdomen extending 



