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Male, Cinereous-reddish, slender, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 ascending, short, slender. Antennas very minutely pubescent. 

 Hind tibiae incrassated. Wings ample, transversely brown-streaked, 

 with two almost obsolete bands, and with a brown nearly straight 

 submarginal line, which is white-bordered on the outer side, where 

 it is accompanied by a pale greenish line; discal point black. 

 Fore wings acute, hardly falcate ; exterior border very slightly 

 bent. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly bent, hardly 

 scolloped. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



A^ELINA VABIARIA. 



Fcem. Ferrugineo-fusca ; antenna robus tee, simplices ; abdomen 

 alas posticas paullo superans ; alee subdentatce ; anticce sub- 

 purpurascentes , nigro subconspersce, guttis submarginalibus 

 nigris, lineis duabus nigricantibus, la fiexa informi, 2a ob- 

 liqua subdentata intus fusco late marginata extus pallida 

 marginata, striga discali lata ferruginea, litura discali nigra 

 lunulata bene determinata ; posticce cinereo-fuscce, linea exte- 

 riore fusca subdenjiculata extus pallida marginata, punctis 

 tribus marginalibus nigris, fasciculo subtus discali squamosa 

 nigricante, guttis sub tits marginalibus albis nigra notatis. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown. Abdomen and under side 

 brownish cinereous. Antennas stout, simple.* Abdomen extending 

 a little beyond the hind wings. Wings with the exterior border 

 slightly dentate. Fore wings with a slight purplish tinge, thinly 

 speckled with black, with two blackish lines and with submarginal 

 black dots; interior line irregular, much bent in front and hind- 

 ward ; exterior line oblique, slightly dentate, concisely pale-bordered 

 on the outer side and largely brown-bordered on the inner side ; 

 the brown hue interrupted by a broad ochraceous streak ; the latter 

 extending from the blackish lunulate discal mark, which is very dis- 

 tinct. Hind wings cinereous-brown, with a brown slightly denticu- 

 lated exterior line, which is pale-bordered on the outer side ; three 

 black marginal dots near the interior angle; under side with white 

 black-marked marginal dots, and with a squamous blackish tuft in 

 the disk. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



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