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stout. Abdomen extending beyond the hind wings. Logs smooth, 

 moderately long and stout; hind tibue with four long slender spurs. 

 Wings long. Fore wings acute, falcate ; costa convex towards the 

 base and exteriorly; exterior border very oblique; third inferior 

 vein more than twice further from the fourth than from the second. 



Vadata macropterana. 



Cervina ; alee longusimce, cinereo nitentes, punctis plurimis luteis ; 

 anticcB valde falcata, maculis punctisque nigris subtus apud 

 marginem interiorem ; posticus punctis subtus nigro mar- 

 ginatis. 



Fawn-colour. Wiugs very long, glossed with cinereous, 

 speckled (except towards the costa of the fore wings) with numerous 

 luteous points of various size. Fore wings very falcate ; under side 

 with two black subquadrate spots aud some black points along the 

 interior border. Hind wings beneath with the points irregularly 

 black-circled. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Vadata e u rym enan a . 



Mas. Ockracea ; alee singulis transversis obscurioribus, fasciis 

 duabus obliquis chalyb&o-fuseis ; aniiece strigis duabus trans- 

 versis inierioribus vittaque costali incisa chnlybao-fuscis . 



Male, Ochraceous, paler beneath. Wings with some darker 

 indistinct transverse streaklets, which are most numerous in the fore 

 wings. Fore wings with an irregular chalybeous-brown costal stripe, 

 which rejects two oblique irregular bands to the interior border ; two 

 transverse streaks nearer the base; a rosy tinge along the interior 

 border. Hind wings gilded yellow, with a chalybeous-brown band 

 across the middle, and with a brown transverse line near the base. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



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



Vadata subchalyb^a. 



Mas. Ckalybao-ochracea ; abdomen alas posticas ptrpaullo 

 superans; ala longissima?, sat angustai, fusco reticulata, fascia 

 fusca obliqua vix undulata ; antica falcata, strigis tribus 

 anticis transversis fuscis, costa sub undulata, margine exteriore 

 undulato perobliquo. 



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