650 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Whitish. Palpi erect, clothed with short hairs, rising 

 a little higher than the vertex; third joint blackish, conical, very 

 minute, not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. Fore 

 tibiae and fore tarsi blackish ; tips of the tibia? and of the tarsal joints 

 white ; posterior legs white. Fore wings with four zigzag black 

 lines ; first line very near the base ; second anternedial, incompletely 

 double ; third and fourth postmedial, approximate in front, but 

 diverging hindward ; a ferruginous line between the third and fourth 

 lines ; marginal points black ; reniform mark black-bordered, longi- 

 tudinal, irregularly elliptical, containing a small blackish mark. 

 Hind wings white, iridescent, diffusedly bordered with aeneous. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Laphygma lignigera. 



Fcem. Cervina; palpi pubescentes^ oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 3o lanceolato ; abdomen fuscescens, segmenth cinereo pallido 

 marginatis ; alee anticce strigis obliquis costalibus, vitta reni- 

 formem includente lineaqiie postica longitudinali interrupta 

 nigricantibus, reniformi magna lituras tresfuscas includente ; 

 posticce albee, semihyalince, fusco submarginatce. 



Female. Fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi pubes- 

 cent, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the second. Abdomen 

 brownish, lanceolate, extending a little beyond the hind wings; 

 hind borders of the segments pale cinereous. Fore wings slightly 

 acute, with blackish oblique streaks along the costa and with a 

 blackish stripe, which is interrupted by the reniform mark and does 

 not extend to the base ; a blackish interrupted posterior line, which is 

 submarginal along the hind part of the exterior border and marginal 

 along part of the interior border ; marginal poiuts black; reniform 

 mark large, of the ground hue, containing three small brown marks. 

 Hind wings white, iridescent, semihyaline, slightly brown-bordered. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Laphygma peruviana. 



Mas. Pallidisrime cervina; palpi porrecti, articulo 2o fusco; 

 antenna glabrce ; tibice fimbriates ; alee anticce vix acuta, 



