LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 89 



Male. Glittering green. Palpi, antennae, tibiae and tarsi black. 

 Palpi slightly ascending, extending beyond the head; third joint 

 elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 slightly pectinated. Tegulas of the thorax ochraceous, long, narrow, 

 bordered with black, terminated by a long black tuft. Abdomen 

 with a stripe of ochraceous spots; sutures black ; under side white. 

 Wings vitreous, loug, broad, with a slight lurid tinge ; veins and 

 fringe black. Fore wings with black tips, with a black line along 

 the interior border, and with a narrow black streak across the end 

 of the discal areolet. Hind wings with a black mark on the interior 

 angle. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Allied to L. Hanga, from which it may be distinguished by its 

 wings not being ochraceous at the base, and by its fore wings not 

 being bordered with black, except at the tips. 



Bogota. In Mr. Birchall's collection. 



LAG ARIA ABDOMINALIS. 



Mas. Atra ; caput ovhraceum, nigro bifasciatum ; palpi ochracei, 

 oblique ascendentes, nigra bivittati ; thorax lineis quinque och- 

 raceis ; pectus, abdomen subtus pedesque ochracea ; abdomen 

 vitta interrupta abbreviata ochracea, segmenlo \o lineis tribus 

 ochraceis, vittis duabus posterioribus coccineis ; alee amplce, 

 vitrece, nigro fimbriates. 



Male. Deep black. Head ochraceous, with two black bands ; 

 one between the antenna?, the other in front. Palpi pubescent, 

 ochraceous, with a black stripe on each side, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint extremely short. An- 

 tennae moderately pectinated. Thorax with five ochraceous lines. 

 Pectus, abdomen beneath, except at the tip, and legs ochraceous. 

 Abdomen with an ochraceous line, which is interrupted towards the 

 hind border of each segment and does not extend beyond the fourth ; 

 first segment with three ochraceous lines ; third, fourth and fifth 

 with a broad bright crimson stripe on each side ; apical tuft elongate. 

 Wings ample, vitreous, colourless ; veius and fringe black. Fore 

 wings with second subcostal veinlet commencing at half the distance 

 between the first and the tip of the wing ; third median veinlet a 

 little nearer to the second than to the fourth. Length of the body 

 10 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Archidona. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



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