LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 831 



with fouvpenicillate tufts of capitate hairs, one on each side at one- 

 third of the length, and one on each side of the tip ; fourth and fifth 

 segments with a small crest on each. Legs stout ; anterior 

 tibia? most densely fringed ; hind tibia? fringed ; spurs long. Wings 

 long ; exterior border festooned, or with short rounded teeth. Fore 

 wings subfalcate ; exterior border very oblique, with two teeth 

 which are more prominent than the others. Hind wings with the 

 interior border slightly dilated towards the base. 



Pacidara venustissima. 



Mas. Obscure purpurascente-ferruginea ; palpi subtus albi ' 

 pectus album ; abdomen busi subglauceseens, seymentis, 4o e* 

 5o niyro cristatit albo punctatis, venire rufo plagis duabu s 

 basalibus argenteis micantibus ; tarsi anteriores pedesqu e 

 postici albi, calcaribus nigro fasciatis ; alee anticce plagi s 

 duabus liturisque nonnullis parvis aurato albis semihyalinisi 

 linea angulata duplicata antemedia lineaque postmedia costam 

 versus retracta purpureis, linea exteriore brevi postica 

 undulata purpurea nigro marginata, dimidio exteriore fer- 

 rugineo-rufo plagas Ires nigricantes includente, plagis duabus 

 costalibus angulatis pur pur eo- albis ; postica? alba?, semihyaline, 

 margine lato purpurascente-fusco guttam submarginalem 

 aurato-album includente. 



Male. Dark purplish ferruginous. Proboscis yellowish. 

 Palpi white beneath. Antenna? dull ochraceous. Pectus white. 

 Abdomen with some glaucous hairs on each side at the base; fourth 

 and fifth segments with black crests, and with a while point on 

 each side of the hind border ; lateral tufts white, with black tips; 

 under side red, with a bright silvery patch on each side at the base. 

 Legs white ; anterior femora and tibia? purplish ferruginous ; tarsi 

 at the base and hind knees with black dots ; spurs with a black band. 

 Fore wings with two gilded white semivitreous patches, which are 

 accompanied by some small marks of the same hue; first patch 

 joining the interior border ; second near the middle of the exterior 

 border; a double purple angular line on the inner side of the first 

 patch ; a purple line between the patches, retracted towards the 

 costa, accompanied near the hind part of its outer side by a short 

 undulating purple black-bordered line ; space beyond the first 

 patch mostly ferruginous-red, including three indeterminate blackish 



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