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black stripe on each side. Abdomen with a middle row of brown 

 dots and with two lateral stripes of black spots. Fore wings with 

 some undulating transverse brownish lines, with a black curved api- 

 cal streak, with a whitish discal dot, which is surrounded by a fer- 

 ruginous patch, and the latter is partly bordered with black. Hind 

 wings dark brown, cinereous about the interior angle. Length of 

 the body 18 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 



a. Eio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b, c. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



9. Macrosila lichenea. 



Cinereo-fusca, viridi suffusa, subtus albida ; antenna albidce ; 

 abdomen e strigis lateralibus obliquis nigris bivittatum ; aloe 

 antica cinerea?, nigro et jlavo-viridi varies, lineis transversis 

 undulosis albidis, macula basalt guttaque discali albis ; pos- 

 tica? albido subfuscescentes, fasciis fuscis obscurioribus. 



Macrosila lichenea, Boisd. MSS. 



Cinereous-brown, tinged with green, mostly white beneath. 

 Antennae whitish. Abdomen with two lateral rows of black oblique 

 streaks. Ciliae with white spots. Fore wings gray, with undulating 

 transverse whitish lines, varied also wirh black and with yellowish 

 green, and in the female with brown ; a white basal spot and 

 a white discal dot. Hind wings whitish, tinged with brown and 

 with several darker brown bands. Length of the body 17 — 20 

 lines ; of the wings 40 — 50 lines. 



Female. Body and fore wings slightly tinged here and there 

 with yellow, which in, the fore wings chiefly appears at the base, 

 and on a broad diffuse band which contains the discal dot. 



a. Kio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 b. ? From M. Becker's collection. 



10. Macrosila aper. 



Mas. Nigro-fusca ; caput cervinum, ; thorax pilis plurimis rigidis 

 cervinis ; abdomen e maculis luteis necnon e guttis albis quad- 

 rivittatum ; ala antiea atra, venis, gu/)ta discali, fascia un- 

 dulata exteriore, striga apicali lineaque apud. marginem exte- 

 riorem testaceis ; postica cinerea? vittis duabus fuscis, vittaque 

 lata atra testaceo conspersa. 



Macrosila aper, Boisd. MSS. 



