1052 CATALOGUE OF 



wings towards the tips of the fore wings, on approaching which it is 

 retracted to the costa ; marginal lunules black. Fore wings acute, 

 with a hardly curved yellow line between the base and the reniform 

 mark, which is large and yellow-bordered and is hardly excavated 

 on the outer side; a yellowish undulating subraarginal line; ex- 

 terior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind wings with a reniform 

 mark which is smaller than that of the fore wings, and with a 

 curved submarginal line of blackish dots. Length of the body 5i 

 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



ThEHMESIA SUBFrXA. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi laves, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 So lineari apice pallide cinereo ; antenncB setulosce ; pedes 

 laves; ala tinea cinerea subrecta obliqua fusco marginata, 

 linea exteriore cinerea angulosa nigricante notata ; antica 

 acuta, linea basali fusca angulosa, reniformi e lunula tenui 

 alba, margine exteriore subflexo; postica gutta nigricante 

 elongata discali ante media. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, more cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 smooih, obliquely ascending, longer than the breadth of the head ; 

 third joint linear, pale cinereous at the tip, much shorter than the 

 second. Antennae minutely setulose. Abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft very small. Legs smooth. 

 Wings with a nearly straight cinereous line, which is bordered with 

 brown on the inner side and extends from four-fifths of the length 

 of the interior border of the hind wings, and is curved near the 

 costa of the lore wings, which it joins at about three-fifths of the 

 length of the latter ; an exterior zigzag cinereous blackish-marked 

 line; a cinereous slightly festooned marginal line. Fore wings 

 acute, with a zigzag brown line near the base; reniform mark 

 represented by a very slender white lunule ; four pale cinereous 

 costal points near the tips; exterior border slightly bent in the 

 middle. Hind wings with an elongated blackish dot in the disk 

 near the base. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



