LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 833 



Male. Blackish, dark brownish cinereous beneath. Abdomen 

 blackish cinereous, with black crests; apical tuft pale cinereous. 

 Fore wings very dark purplish red, speckled with black ; seven 

 black zigzag lines ; first line incomplete, very near the base, 

 having a black band between it and the second, which is abbreviated 

 hindward ; third, fourth and fifth somewhat diffuse; sixth un- 

 dulating, accompanied by acute whitish points on its outer side ; 

 seventh broad, incomplete ; marginal dots black, elongated. Hind 

 wings with a blackish discal dot and with two blackish exterior 

 zigzag lines. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



Fam. PLUSID^:, C. L. H. xii. 880. 

 Genus ABROSTOLA, C. L. H. xii. 880. 



Abrostola subchalyb^a. 



Foem. Chalybceo-cinerea ; caput nigro fasciatum ; palpi porrecti, 

 articulo 3o lanceolato ; thorax nigro fasciatus, anticce fer- 

 rugineus, postice fasciculatus et cinereo trilineatus ; abdomen 

 nigro bicristatum ; alee anticce nigro conspersce, lineis tribus 

 fuscis angulosis duplicating striga discali cenea dilatata, 

 linea submarginali nigra dentata, reniformi perangusta nigro 

 marginata ; posticce cinerece, dimidio exteriore ceneo, fimbria 

 albida fusco interlineata. 



Female. Chalybeous-cinereous. Head with a curved black 

 band between the antennae. Palpi porrect, extending rather beyond 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, full half the length of the second. 

 Thorax with a slender black band on the fore tegulae, which are 

 ferruginous in front ; hind part with three cinereous transverse 

 lines and with an erect tuft. Abdomen cinereous, extending much 

 beyond the hind wings ; a black crest on the first segment and 

 another on the third. Fore wings black-speckled, with three brown 

 zigzag double lines ; first line very near the base, partly black ; 

 second on the inner side of 'an ameous streak which is dilated out- 

 ward and extends to the third line ; submarginal line black, acutely 

 dentate ; marginal festoon black ; reniform mark black-bordered, 

 very narrow. Hind wiugs cinereous; exterior half diffusedly 



