AXTAIICTIA. 



445- 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint naked and extending beyond tlie frons. 



A. Vertex of head and tegula; yellowish white variegata. 



B. Vertex of head and tegula) not white. 



a. Fore wing with obscure subterminal line. 



a^. Fore wing with at most a black point in middle of 

 cell ; (S with the disk whitish on underside ; hind 

 wing yellowish, with diffused maculate band on 

 terminal area ftisca. 



h^. Fore wing with distinct black spot in middle of cell ; 

 (^ with the disk dark on underside; hind wing 

 brown, paler towards base lateralis. 



b. Fore wing without subterminal line. 



a}. Fore wing with pale streaks on the median nervules. cosfata. 

 h^. Fore wing with dark streaks on the veins. 



d^. Fore wing with the ground-colour black-brown ... honora. 

 b'^. Fore wing with the ground-colour dull rufous ... fervida. 

 c^. Fore wing with the veins concolorous. 



a^. Fore wing with diffused fuscous streaks on median 



nervure and vein 1 angusUpennis.- 



P. Fore wing without dark streaks on median nervure 

 and vein 1. 

 a^. Fore wing with dark discoidal lunule. 



a*. Hind wing dark brown ;persimilis. 



b^. Hind wing whitish paula. 



b^. Fore wing without dark discoidal lunule. 

 a*. Fore wing with the costa not white. 



a'. Abdomen dorsally brown rudis. 



Z>\ Abdomen dorsally orange sericea. 



6*. Fore wing with the costa white vulpina. 



2028. Antarctia variegata. (Plate XLIX. fig. 18.) 

 Motada variegata, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 143 (1896). 



(S . Palpi and frons black-brown ; vertex of head and tegulae- 

 white ; antennae blackish, the shaft white above ; thorax blackish, 

 largely mixed with white ; femora orange above ; abdomen dorsally 

 black and white, laterally dull orange, ventrally whitish. Fore 

 wing black-brown, thickly irrorated with white ; the base of inner 

 area pale ; white spots in middle and end of cell ; a white point 

 followed by a short streak in middle of submedian fold ; vein 1 

 streaked with white ; a more or less developed spot on middle of 

 inner margin ; an obscure black discoidal spot ; a white postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein .5, then interrupted and incurved 

 from vein 2 to inner margin ; a very irregular dentate subterminal 

 line bent outwards between veins 6 and 4, then incurved to vein 3 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with white ; a crenulate white terminal line. Hind wing white ; 

 a fuscous discoidal lunule ; some fuscous subterminal spots toward 

 apex and tornus, and a slight terminal line from apex to vein 2. 



Hob. Brazil, Castro Paraiia, 1 S ■ Exp. 34-44 millim. Type t r? 

 in Coll. Schaus. 



2029. Antarctia fusca. (Plate XLIX. fig. 15.) 



Massicyta fusca, Wlk. vii. 1712 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 835. 

 Antarctia multifarior. Burm. Descr, Rep. Arg. v. p. 452 (1878) ; Kirby,. 

 Cat. Het. p. 225. 



