148 CATALOGUE OF 



alas posticas vix superans. Pedes robusti, pilosi ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae latiusculae ; anticae apud costam 

 vix convexae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore mediocriter 

 obliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi thick, 

 pilose, ascending ; third joint very minute. Antennae very minutely 

 setose-serrate, much more than half the length of the body. Abdo- 

 men hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; 

 hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings 

 hardly convex in front, rounded at the tips, moderately oblique and 

 indistinctly convex along the exterior border ; second and third in- 

 ferior veins united at the base ; fourth about twice further from the 

 third than the first is from the second. 



1. B.3ECULA GALLOPAVO. 



Mas. Cervina ; thorax glauco-viridi conspersus; abdomen sub- 

 cinereum ; alee anticce nigro consperscs, ex parte albidce, pur- 

 pureo ornatce, vitta arcuata nig?-a, apud costam viridi-cervina, 

 apice margineque exteriore sordide albidis strigis maculisque 

 viridi-fulvis ; posticce minus varice. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Plumes of the thorax, except in front, 

 fringed with glaucous-green. Abdomen somewhat cinereous. Fore 

 wings greenish fawn-colour in front, dingy whitish and with 

 greenish fawn-coloured streaks and spots, and with darker dots 

 about the tips and along the exterior border ; disk partly whitish in 

 the exterior part, speckled with black, adorned with a curved black 

 stripe, and with purplish reflections. Hind wings much like the 

 fore wings in colour, but without the black stripe, and with very few 

 black speckles. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 22 

 lines. 

 a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



2. BjECULA? CUPENTIA. 



Cervina ; alee anticce fuse ce, gut lis nonnullis maculis apud margi- 

 nem interiorem fasciisque tribus albis, fascia submarginali 

 postice contracta ; posticce pallidiores, basi cervina?. 



Phalasna Cupentia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 103, pi. 252, f. E. 

 Coenipeta Cupentia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 260, 2557. 



Surinam. 



