1808 



catalogue of 



margine exterior e plagaque postica chalybao-fuscis nigra con- 



spersis ; poslicce aneo-fusca, fimbria cinerea. 

 ^ Male. Chalybeous-brown. Body beneath and legs silvery 

 cinereous. Head whitish. Palpi lochraceous-cinereous, porrect, 

 squamous, obtuse, black-speckled on ihe outer side, as long as the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint extremely small. Antenna? minutely 

 pubescent. Fore wiogs silvery, with the exception of the base and 

 the exterior border and a patch on the middle of the interior border, 

 which are black-speckled. Hind wings aeneous-brown ; fringe cine- 

 reous, with two brown lines. Length of the bodv 2 lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Genus JONACA, C. L. H. xxviii. 4.37. 



JONACA CRYPTOPVKHHELLA. 

 Fcem. Cupreo-nigricam ; abdominis tegmenta alio margin 



aim elongate, fimbria alba; unlivce apice subrotundatr, linea 

 postmedia alba angulosa t spado marginali taturate rufaguUu 

 duabus mbmarginalibm afro, linea marginali nigra; pottim 

 macula media alba fere fujalina. 



Female. Cupreous-blackish. Body beneath and lej 

 cinereous. Abdomen extending rather beyond the bin . 

 hind borders of the segments silvery white on each ride 



cupreous-brown, their joints with silvery white tips. Wings elon- 

 gate ; fringe white. lore wings slightly rounded at the tips; a post- 

 medial zigzag white Hue; some white more exterior speckles : mar- 

 ginal space deep red ; two deep black points, one snbapical, the other 

 near the interior angle; marginal line black; exterior border slightly 

 convex and oblique ; under side with a white spot in the disk. Hind 

 wings with a white nearly hyaline spot in the disk ; under side with 

 a white costal partly oehraceous spot joining the base of a broad x 

 bright deep red streak which occupies the exterior part of the costa. 

 Length of the body 4 lines; ol the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Para. Presented by Gordon Giahame, Esq. 



Genus OEOSANA, C. L. H. xxviii. 458. 

 Orosaxa acontiella. 



Foem. Obscure vhali/btco-ferruginea ; palpi rob>i$ti, erect 7, verii- 

 cem non superantes, articulo oo longi-conico ; abdominis 



