518 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Ochraceous, tinged with chalybeous. Palpi porrect, 

 smooth, slender, not extending beyond the head. Antennae rather 

 slender. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs long, smooth, rather stout ; spurs long. Wings rather 

 narrow, very long, irregularly reticulated with brown ; an oblique 

 hardly undulating brown band, which extends from three-fifths of 

 the length of the costa of the fore wings to a little beyond half the 

 length of the interior border of the hind wings. Fore wings falcate, 

 acute, with three transverse brown streaks which extend from the 

 costa to the disk ; two between the band and the base, the third 

 beyond the band ; costa slightly undulating ; exterior border 

 undulating, very oblique. Hind wings rather obtuse at the tips. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. 



Vadata aurorula. 

 Siculodes aurorula, Gn. Phal, ii. Siculides, pi. 1 f. 4. 



Genus ORTOSPEDA. 



Mas, Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis nulla. Palpi porrecti, 

 pubescentes, sat graciles, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us 

 minimus. Antennae brevissimae, late pectinatae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas vix superans. Pedes breves, graciles. Alae anticae latae, 

 elongatae, falcatae, acutae, margine exteriore antice excavato postice 

 perobliquo. 



Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, 

 pubescent, rather slender, not extending beyond the head ; third 

 joint extremely minute. Antennae very short, broadly pectinated. 

 Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs short, 

 slender. Wiugs broad, elongate. Fore wings falcate, acute ; costa 

 straight ; exterior border excavated in front, very oblique hind- 

 ward ; three inferior veins ; first and second springiug from the hind 

 angle at the end of the discal areolet ; third remote ; three superior 

 veins ; first springing from the middle of the end of the areolet ; 

 second more than twice further from the third than from the first. 



