LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1693 
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Genus BRACCA. 
1. Bracca BAJULARIA. 
Bracca bajularia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 179, 1849. 
Arctia? bajularia, p. 615. 
Page 616. 
Genus PERICALLIA. 
Pleretes, Lederer, Verhandl. Zool. Botan. Vereins zu Wien. ti. &e. 
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DaRITIS MARGINALIS. 
Mas. Nigro-fusca; thorax fascia interrupta flava; abdomen 
rufum, nigro trivittatum, subtus flavum ; pedes flavo strigatr ; 
ale antice gutta basalt rufa, fascia latissuma vitrea maculaque 
magna subguadrata nigro-fusca, guttis submarginalibus semi- 
hyalinis ; postice vitree, marginibus nigro-fuscis rufo vitreo- 
que variis. | 
Male. Blackish brown. Thorax with a bright yellow band, 
which is dilated on each side and widely interrupted in the middle. 
Abdomen red, with one dorsal and two lateral black stripes ; under 
side yellow. "Legs with yellow streaks. Fore wings with a red 
basal and costal dot, and beyond the middle with a very broad 
vitreous band, which is dilated in front, and there contains a large 
blackish brown subquadrate spot; disk towards the base semihya- 
line ; exterior border with a row of semihyaline dots; these are most 
apparent on the under side, where the subapical part is red. Hind 
wings vitreous, with blackish brown borders, the latter are inter- 
ruptedly interlined with red, and contain also a row of vitreous 
dots; a blackish brown streak across the tip of the discal areolet. 
Leneth of the body 11 lines; of the wings 31 lines. 
This species is closely allied to some species of Pericopis, and 
thus connects the Arctiide with the Pericopide. 
Santa Fe de Bogota. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
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