LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1067 



Selents DENTATA. 



Fcem. Ferrugineo-fusca ; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem 

 longe snperantes, articulo So lineari bast apiceque cinereo ; 

 alee fascia obliqua fusco interlineata nigra marginata lineaque 

 exteriore angulata cervinis, punctis marginalibus nigris, mar- 

 gine exteriore dentato ; anticce villa coslali lata cervina, 

 reniformi alba angusta fusco marginata ; poslica punctis 

 marginalibus posiice elongatis arcualis. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown. Palpi ascending obliquely 

 much higher than the vertex ; second joint clothed with very short 

 hairs ; third linear, cinereous at the base and at the tip, shorter 

 than the second. Wings with an oblique fawn-coloured band, which 

 is interlined with brown and is irregularly black-bordered on the 

 inner side; an exterior fawn-coloured irregular deeply angular line; 

 marginal points black, elongated into lunules towards the interior 

 angle of the hind wings; exterior border dentate ; under side with 

 two slight imperfect whitish bands, of which the second is submar- 

 ginal and very incomplete. Fore wings acute, with a broad fawn- 

 coloured costal stripe, which is slightly undulating along its hind 

 side and is narrower towards the tip ; reniform mark white, narrow, 

 brown-bordered. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 13 

 lines. 



Bogota. In Mr. Birchall's collection. 



Selenis diversa. 



Mas. Fusea, nigricante subnebulosa ; thorax albido quadrifas- 

 ciatus ; alee villa flavescente-alba, fascia obliqua subundulata 

 pallide cervina cinereo marginata, lunulis marginalibus nigris t 

 margine exteriore vix dentato ; anticce reniformi e lunula 

 alba. 



Male. Brown, here and there shaded with blackish, pale 

 beneath. Antennae setulose. Fore tegulae of the thorax with two 

 whitish transverse lines; hind part of the thorax with two whitish 

 bands. Legs stout; femora slightly fringed. Wings with a yel- 

 lowish whitish stripe which occupies the base of the hind wings and 

 of the interior border of the fore wings, and extends obliquely thence 

 to the costa, of which it occupies more than one-third of the apical 



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