LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA 239 



Hind wings with the exterior border very slightly scolloped. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Apicia? liber aria. 



Fcem. Pallide rufescente-cervina, sub tux pallide testacea ; palpi 

 por recti, caput vix super antes ; antenna? graciles ; tibice posticce 

 non incrassatce ; alee amplce, nigricante substrigatce, lineis 

 duabus mediis obliquis cinereis subparallelis vix undulatis, 

 fimbria cinerea ; anticce subfalcatce, lineis quatuor, 4a albido 

 punctata, margine exteriore subconvexo subobliquo. 



Female. Pale reddish fawn colour, pale testaceous beneath. 

 Palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely minute. Antennae slender. Hind tibiae not incrassated. 

 Wings ample, slightly and transversely blackish-streaked, with two 

 middle oblique cinereous nearly parallel hardly undulatiug lines; 

 fringe cinereous. Fore wings subfalcate ; casta straight; exterior 

 border slightly convex and oblique, with au interior line which is 

 nearly parallel to the two middle lines, and with an exterior one 

 which is incomplete and whitish pointed. Wings beneath without 

 lines, except three black subcostal dots, which indicate the exterior 

 one. Length of the body 6 ? lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



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Apicia? infjcitaria. 



Mas. Pa Hide tes tacea, subtus lutescens ; palpi porrecti, caput vix su- 

 perantes ; antennce pectinatce, apice simplices ; tibice posticce in- 

 crassatce ; alee fusco subconspersa, linea recta obliqua fusces- 

 cente, spatio exteriore purpurascente-einereo ; anticce acutce, 

 puncto discali nigricante, linea interiore undulata diffusa 

 pur pur ascente- cinerea, linea exteriore apud costam angulata, 

 margine exteriore convexo ; posticce margine exteriore sub- 

 flexo, 



Male, Pale testaceous, with a luteous tinge on the under side. 

 Palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely minute. Antenna) pectinated to nearly two-thirds of the 

 length. Hind tibiae incrassated. Wings minutely and trans- 

 versely brown-streaked, with a straight oblique brownish line ; space 

 beyond the line mostly purplish cinereous. Fore wings acute, with 

 a blackish discal point and with an interior undulating diffuse 



