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is ochreoiis. Fore wing with basal deep chocolate-brown patch, its 

 outer edge oblique sinuous ; the antemedial area creamy white ; 

 medial area lemon-yellow with a red-brown mark on eosta followed 

 by a white patch ; postmedial area bright rufous suffused with silvery 

 purple towards its inner edge except on costal area : postmedial 

 line slight, white, sinuous, from lower angle of cell to inner margin • 

 a small white spot on costa towards apex ; terminal area yellow 

 except at apex and tornus, interrupted at discal fold by a rufous 

 streak, its inner edge incurved ; cilia rufous at middle, yellow 

 towards apex and tornus. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia with 

 fine white line at base and white tips ; the underside ochreous 

 white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with 

 brown. 



5 . Head and thorax bright rufous ; fore wing with the basal 

 patch bright rufous defined by a fine white line on outer side, the 

 rest of wing black-brown tinged with purple-grey, the medial and 

 terminal areas irrorated with large greenish-yellow scales, the 

 medial and postmedial white spots on «osta prominent, the post- 

 medial line slight, a fine white line just before termen, cilia rufous 

 with ochreous-white patch below apex and some ochreous white at 

 tornus. 



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6004. Heliocontia apicella, 



Emmelia apicella, Grote, Trans. Am. Eat. Soc. iv, p, 21 (1872); Druco, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am,, Het. i. p. 302; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 302. 



Agrophila truncatula, Zell. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiii. p. 203, pi. 3. 

 f. 1 (1873). 



Fniva accefta, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p, 24 (1881). 



Agrophila tnarmorea, Druoe, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 302 (part.), nee 

 Butl. 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi whitish at base, dark 

 brown at tips ; antennae blackish ; pectus and legs white, the fore 

 and mid tibiae banded with fuscous, the tarsi brown ringed with 



Fig. 187. — Heliocontia apicella, (^ . ^, 



white ; abdomen rufous with whitish segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing lemon-yellow ; a rufous patch at base 

 Avith obliquely curved outer edge ; a rufous tinge along terminal 



