HETEROCHROMi. 27^ 



U-shaped black mark defined by white with minute black streak 

 below it, and oblique wedge-shaped black mark from costa above it 

 before the reuiform, which is very faintly defined by white and 

 with some black scales on outer edge, its centre and the area just 

 beyond it suffused with pink, a small triangular black spot above it 

 from costa ; an oblique sinuous brown line from below lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin with semicircular rufous patch defined by 

 pink beyond it on inner margm ; postmedial line minutely waved, 

 white defined on each side by black from costa to vein 5, the black 

 on outer side expanding into a patch at costa and at vein 5 into an 

 elongate mark, then defined on each side by pinkish, incurved below 

 vein 2 and ending in a rather X-shaped mark above extremity of 

 patch on inner margin ; an ill-defined white subterminal line from 

 below costa to vein 5, then bent inwards to the postmedial line and 

 outwards to terraen above tornus ; some black striae before termen 

 below vein 6 and a white bar between veins 4, cJ ; a waved black 

 terminal line except towards tornus. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; the costal area and a broad subterminal band 

 black ; an indistinct oblique medial line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin and minutely waved postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a pink and rufous patcli on inner margin above tornus ; a 

 terminal series of black lunules ; the underside white tinged with 

 olive, the costal area strongly irrorated with black, a black discoidal 

 spot, the medial and postmedial lines strong on costal area, the 

 subterminal band formed of confluent striae. 



Hah. Panama, Bugaba {Champion)., 1 2 type, Godraan-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 



3075. Heterochroma eriopioides. 



Heterochrovia eriopioides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 69, pi. 8. f. 8 (IS.")"). 

 Hadena suhapicalis, Wlk. xxsiii. 731 (ISfi.o). 



Dargida porphyra, Driice, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 271, pi. 26. f. 17 

 (1887). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous ; pectus wirh 

 some ochreous and pinkish hairs ; tar.si blackish with ochreous 

 rings; abdomen reddish brown, the crests with dark tips, the anal 

 tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; subbasal line double at costa and filled in with 

 ochreous, then single, waved and with small white spot beyond it 

 on inner margin ; antemedial line double tilled in with ochreous, 

 waved ; the medial area below vein 1 purplish rufous ; claviform 

 large, defined by black at extremity only ; orbicular and reniform 

 indistinctly defined by black, the former round, the latter with 

 yellowish-white spot on its upper edge, with a point above it ; a 

 waved black medial line oblique from costa to median nervure and 

 ending at vein 1 ; postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then interrupted with an oblique ochreous streak from beyond 

 upper angle of cell becoming rufous at extremity and with a slight 

 black streak below its basal part, the line then represented by a 



