LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 1685 



black-bordered lines near the base ; a black dot in tbe disk ; a post- 

 medial undulating black line, which extends from the costa to the 

 disk, and is bordered with pale cinereous on the outer side, and is 

 broadly and diffusedly bordered witb ferruginous on the inner side ; 

 exterior border hardly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with 

 markings most complete along the exterior border, which is hardly 

 festooned. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 a, b. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



Genus SCOTOSIA, C. L. H. xxv. 1342. 



SCOTOSIA FLOCCOSARIA. 



Mas. Fusca ; palpi caput vix su per antes ; antenna pubescentes ; 

 abdominis tatera nigricante maculata ; alee antica basi plaga- 

 que costali floccosis, lineis angulosis annuloque postico nigris, 

 fascia subtus alba abbreviate ; posticce nigro-fusca. 

 Male. Brown. Body cinereous. Palpi porrect, hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the head. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen with a 

 row of°blackish spots on each side, not extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Wings ample; marginal festoon black; underside dark 

 cinereous, with a blackish curved band, and with some white marks 

 along the exterior border. Fore wings acute, floccose near the base, 

 and with a floccose costal patch beyond the middle; some black 

 zigzag lines, of which two are more conspicuous than the others and 

 have between them a black ringlet on the interior border ; exterior 

 border slightly convex, moderately oblique; under side with a white 

 curved band, which is much abbreviated towards the interior border. 

 Hind wings blackish brown ; under side with a curved postmedial 

 cinereous band. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 24 lines. 

 Bogota. In Mr. Birchall's collection. 



SCOTOSIA CONSPURCATA. 



Mas. Nigricante-fusca; palpi breves, oblique ascendentes, subtus 

 fimbriati ; alee antiece elongatce, lineis duabus nigris undulatis 

 antemediis, \a duplicata, gutta media nigra, linea postmedia 

 undulata lineaque submarginali angulosa nigricante marginata 

 obscure cinereis, strigis postmediis nigris ; postica fusca, 

 puncto medio lineisque tribus nigricantibus, lineis 2a 3aque 

 angulosis cinereo marginatis. 



