DIAMUNA. 



653 



208. Diamuna severa. 



Phalcena severa, Cram. Tap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). 



$ . Deep red-brown ; pectus and mid and hind femora and 

 tibiae orange ; abdomen black. Pore wing slightly irrorated with 

 silvery blue ; traces of an antemedial erect line below the cell ; the 

 postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by bluish on outer 

 side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing 

 deep orange, with black terminal band with curved inner edge. 

 Underside ot fore wing with orange postmedial band from costa to 

 below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. 



Hah. Surinam; Amazons, E. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $. Ex^. b(S 

 millim. 



*209. Diamuna hesperina. 



Darceta hesperina, Herr.-Scbaff. Au88ereur. Schmett. p, 13, f. 524 (1850;. 



2 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-brown ; antennae blackish ; 

 mid and hind femora and tibiae fringed with orange hair ; abdomen 

 black-brown. Pore wing deep chocolate, irrorated with blue-white 

 scales on basal inner area, on costal area before the postmedial line, 

 and on terminal area; a waved double pale-brown almost medial 

 line, almost obsolete except from cell to inner margin ; a large 

 indistinct reniform spot ; a double grey-brown postmedial line 

 strongly excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing 

 orange ; a broad black-brown terminal band running inwards on 

 costa to before middle and on inner margin to base on upperside 

 and to before middle on underside ; a diff'used black patch some- 

 times present below middle of cell. 



Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina, Coll. Staudinger. Exp. ^Q millim. 



210, Diamuna proserpina. 



Phalcena-Nocttca proserphia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 239, pi. 399, I (1782). 

 Darceta hesperina, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 525, 526 (1850). 



Fig. 287. — Diamuna proserpina, (^ . \. 



cJ . Deep red-brown ; pectus and legs with some fulvous hair ; 

 abdomen black. Pore wing irrorated with blue-white ; an oblique 

 medial olive-brown band from cell to inner margin rounded above ; 

 a postmedial olive-brown line on a white-irrorated ground, defined 



