LEPlfeoPTERA HETEROCERA. 1043 



dered dot. Fore wings acute, hardly falcate, with an undulating 

 ferruginous line near the base and with another on the inner side of 

 the reniform mark, which is bordered wiih ferruginous; four cine- 

 reous costal points near the tip. Hind wings with the reniform 

 represented by a blackish dot. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



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



Thermesia saturata. 



Foem. Fuscescente-rufdi chalybceo subtincta ; caput et thorax 

 anticus nigricanle-fusca ; palpi subascendentes, capitis lati- 

 tudine multo longiores, articulo So siibfasciculaio ; antennce 

 sctulosce ; alee nigro strigatce, tinea nigricante obiiqua recta 

 duplicata, punctis exteriorihus albidis ; anticce subfalcatce, 

 acittce, linea basali fusca angulosa, orbiculari e puncto nigri- 

 cante albido-notato, reniformi cinerea nigricante marginata 9 

 lineola cos tali obiiqua nigricante ; posticce gutta antemedia 

 nigra. 



Female. Brownish red, with a slight chalybeous tinge, dull 

 fawn-colour beneath. Head, palpi, fore part of the thorax, anterior 

 femora and anterior tibiae blackish brown. Frontal tuft prominent. 

 Palpi slightly ascending, much longer than the breadth of the 

 head, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint tufted above, 

 full half the length of the second. Antennae slender, minutely 

 setulose. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth, slender; spurs slender, very long; fore tibiae with white 

 tips; joints of the fore tarsi yellowish towards the base. Wings 

 transversely black-streaked, with a double blackish straight line 

 which extends from the tips of the fore wings to two-thirds of the 

 length of the interior border of the hind wings ; an exterior line of 

 whitish points; underside brown-streaked, with apostmedial denti- 

 culated brown line, and with the white points more conspicuous. 

 Fore wings acute, subfalcate, with a zigzag Brown line near the 

 base ; orbicular mark forming a blackish whitish-marked point ; 

 reniform cinereous, blackish-bordered, forming beneath a white dot 

 which is black-bordered on the inner side; a short blackish line 

 extending nearly rectangularly from the double line to the costa. 

 Hind wings with a black dot on the inner side of the double line, 

 white-bordered beneath. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 18 wings. 



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



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