1054 CATALOGUE OF 



the fore part of the exterior border ; four blackish zigzag lines ; 

 first very near the base; second antemedial ; third and fourth bor- 

 dered with pale cinereous on the outer side ; orbicular mark forming 

 a blackish dot; reniform pale cinereous, blackish-bordered on the 

 onter side ; marginal lunules blackish ; five yellowish cinereous 

 points along the exterior part of the costa ; exterior border convex, 

 rather oblique. Hind wings brown ; fringe cinereous. Length of 

 the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Eio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Therme&ia fuscescens. 



Mas. Fusca ; fasciculus frontalis porrectus, acutus ; palpi sub- 

 erectly capitis latitudine paullo longiores, articulo So lineari ; 

 ala? lata?, nigro conspersce, linea nigricante recta obliqua 

 cinereo marginata apud costam retracta, linea basali nigri- 

 cante angulosa, fimbria cinerea, margine exieriore vix dentato ; 

 antica reniformi nigricante marginata, 



Male. Brown, a little paler beneath. Frontal tuft porrect, 

 acute. Palpi pubescent, nearly erect, a little ^ longer than the 

 breadth of the head and rising much higher than'the vertex ; third 

 joint linear, much more than half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae setose. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings; 

 apical tuft very small, slightly compressed. Legs smooth. Wings 

 broad, very minutely black-speckled, with a blackish straight line 

 which is bordered with cinereous on the outer side, and extends 

 from two thirds of the length of the interior border of the hind 

 wings towards the tips of the fore wings, near which it is retracted 

 to the costa ; a zigzag blackish line near the base; marginal points 

 blackish; fringe cinereous ; under side with a blackish lunule and 

 with an exterior blackish-curved denticulated line; exterior border 

 slightly festooned. Fore wings acute ; reniform mark blackish- 

 bordered ; three costal elongated cinereous points near the lip; 

 exterior border very slightly oblique. Length of the body 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Thermesia obumbrata. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; fasciculus frontalis porrectus ; palpi ob- 

 lique ascendentes, cavitis latitudine longiores, articulo So 



