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5. Clysia PARDIPENNARIA. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina ; caput nigricans ; antenna crenulata, 

 subciliata ; pedes anteriores nigricantes, pallido fasciati ; 

 tibia posticce valde incrassata ; ala ampla, nigra maculata, 

 linea exteriore e punctis paucis albis, linea subtus exteriore 

 diffusa nigricante, margine exteriore subdentato ; antica apice 

 subquadrata, macula magna costali subapicali alba nigro 

 marginata ; postica margine exteriore angulato, 



Male. Reddish fawn-colour, cinereous-tinged beneath. Head 

 blackish. Antennae crenulated, minutely ciliated. Anterior legs 

 blackish, with pale bands ; hind tibiae very much incrassated. 

 Wings ample, minutely black-speckled, with several black spots ; 

 an exterior line composed of a few white points ; submar.ginal line 

 black, composed of dots in the fore wings, undulating in the hind 

 wings ; exterior border very slightly scolloped ; under side with a 

 diffuse complete exterior blackish line. Fore wings with a large 

 white black-bordered costal subapical spot ; tips subquadrate ; 

 exterior border forming a very obtuse angle at a little in front of 

 the middle. Hind wings forming a prominent angle in the middle 

 of the exterior border. Length of the body 1 l\ lines ; of the wings 

 26 lines. 



a. Tapayos. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



6. Clysia succedens. 



Foem. Olivaceo-viridis ; tibice anteriores niveo guttata, postica 

 subtumida ; ala rufescentes, nigro subconspersa ; anticce sub- 

 falcata, viridi suffusa, linea inter iore arcuata indistincta, 

 puncto discali nigro, linea exteriore undulata pallide viridi 

 intusfusco marginata, margine exteriore bis inciso, plaga sub- 

 tus albida ; postica linea exteriore fusca subarcuata, incisuris 

 duabus apud angulum interiorem, lineis subtus duabus rectis 

 obliquis parallelis viridescentibus. 



Female. Olive green, more ochraceous beneath. Frontal tuft 

 prominent. Palpi obliquely ascending as high as the vertex ; third 

 joint elongate-conical. Anterior tibiae with snow-white dots ; hind 

 tibiae slightly tumid. Wings reddish, very minutely black-speckled. 

 Fore wings subfalcate, with a green tinge, which is most prevalent 

 along the costa ; interior line curved, very indistinct ; a black discal 

 dot ; exterior line pale green, undulating, brown-bordered on the 

 inner side, whitish and nearly straight beneath ; exterior border 



