282 NOCTUIDiE, 



black suffusion between them in cell ; traces of a waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with green except at middle, bent 

 outwards below costa, then waved, exeurved to vein 4 near subter- 

 minal line, then oblique and angled inwards on vein 1, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line green, minutely and 

 irregularly waved, angled inwards at vein 7 and in submedian fold, 

 with some black scales on inner edge and blackish suffusion beyond 

 it on apical halt and green on inner half ; a terminal series of small 

 blackish lunules ; cilia brown with a blackish line through them, 

 intersected with green on inner half. Hind wing red-brown ; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside pink irrorated with black, a large black 

 discoidal spot and crenulate postmedial line. 



Bab. EccABOR (BucJdei/), 1 J type. KviJ. 44 millim. 



3079. Heterochroma beryllus. (Plate CXV. fig. 9.) 



Valeria beri/llus, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 51, pi. 8. f. 7 (1852j ; Druce, Biol. 



Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 292. 

 Hadena viridit-, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 17 (1884). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pinkish and some black 

 scales ; tegula3 with difiused medial green line, patagia and meta- 

 thorax Avith green patches ; pectus, legs, and abdomen red-brown 

 mixed with ochreous, the tarsi ringed with ochreous, the dorsal 

 crests pale rufous. Fore wing olive-green irrorated with black and 

 suffused with red-brown between subcostal nervure and vein 1 

 except on teritiinal area, the veins irrorated with white scales ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae filled in with green 

 from costa and median nervure ; a black spot defined on each side 

 by green before the antemedial line, which is black defined on each 

 side by green, double at costa, angled outwards below costa, inwards 

 in cell and outwards above inner margin, to which it is strongly 

 retracted ; claviform very large, defined by white and black and 

 intersected by green at middle ; orbicular and reniform with brown 

 centres and fine white annuli defined by black, the former conical, 

 open below, the latter large, produced at extremities and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; medial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervtire, then dentate ; postmedial line black defined on 

 each side by green, double at costa, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold, oblique 

 below vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rather broad, white with den- 

 tate black marks on its inner side, slightly exeurved at middle, then 

 oldiquo, interrupted by rufous on each side of vein 6 and between 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia grey intersected 

 by green and with a black line through them. Hind wing yellowish, 

 the costal and terminal areas very broadly red-brown ; a waved 

 dark terminal line ; cilia yellow with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside yellow, the costal and terminal areas tingerl with 

 pink and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved 

 crenulate postmedial line. 



