534 CATALOGUE OF 



exteriore incurvo ; posticce fuscce, macula cinerea strigas duas 

 nigras albo conspersas includente flavo atro fuscoque marginata, 

 linea exteriore nigricante, fascia marginali pallide cervina. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi ex- 

 tremely short. Antennas pale tawny, short, broadly pectinated. 

 Fore wings attenuated, acute, very falcate; a hardly curved brown 

 line, which extends from the tip to one-third of the length of the 

 interior border and is bordered with cinereous on its inner side and 

 is black beneath ; an undulating oblique cinereous line near the 

 base ; a cinereous line in the disk enclosing a large rhomboidal 

 space, this space on the under side is deep black and contains a 

 white spot and emits a black oblique line to the costa ; costa curved 

 towards the tip ; exterior border much curved inward. Hind wings 

 brown, with a very large yellow ringlet, which is bordered with deep 

 black and with brown on its inner side, and contains a central cine- 

 reous space ; the latter includes two black white-speckled streaks, 

 one large and traversed by a white line, the other very small ; an 

 exterior festooned blackish line ; a narrow pale fawn-coloured mar- 

 ginal band, parallel on its inner side to the festooned line; under 

 side with a fawn-coloured transverse line, which contains a white 

 dot. Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



Like H. Janeira in structure, but very different in colour. 



a. Mexico. From M. Salle's collection. 



Hypekchiria megalops. 



Mas. Cinereo- cervina ; caput et thorax nigra ; antennae fulvce, 

 latissime pectinatce ; abdomen obscure ochraceum ; alee aniicce 

 apice rotundatcc, linea undulata subobliqua lineaque exteriore 

 obliqua subrecta obscure fuscis, plaga intermedia fusca sub- 

 quadrata, fascia marginali pallidiore ; posticce ochracece, 

 cervino marginatte, macula cervina saigas tres nigras albo 

 conspersas includente atro marginata, lineis duabus exteriori- 

 bus arcuatis, la nigricante, 2a fusca. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Head and thorax black. Palpi 

 very short. Antennae tawny, very broadly pectinated. Abdomen 

 dark ochraceous, paler beneath. Fore wings rounded at the tips, 

 with an undulating slightly oblique dark brown line, and with an 

 exterior oblique nearly straight dark brown line ; an intermediate 

 subquadrate brown patch, which is bordered with dark brown, and 

 on the under side forms a deep black ringlet containing a white 



