1068 CATALOGUE OF 



part; an oblique slightly undulating pale fawn-coloured band, which 

 is bordered with cinereous on both sides and extends from near the 

 end of the interior border of the hind wings to the stripe at three- 

 fourths of the length of the latter ; marginal lunules black ; exterior 

 border convex, slightly festooned ; underside with a blackish hardly 

 undulating postmedial line. Fore wings acute; reniform mark 

 represented by a white lunule in the stripe ; four pale costal points 

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



a. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith Esq. 



Selenis stipata. 



Fcem. Obscure fusca, nigricans; caput cervinum ; palpi por- 

 recti, nigricantes, caput longe superantes, articulo So lineari ; 

 thorGX cervinus, nigricante fasciatus ; alee lineis duabus 

 nigricantibus indistinctis subangulosis submarginalibus ; 

 anticcB vitta costali lata cervina, linea post media nigra sub- 

 angulosa ; posiicce linea apud angulum interiorem brevi 

 cervina. 



Female. Dark brown, blackish-tinged, brown beneath. Palpi 

 blackish, porrect, extending much beyond the head ; third joint 

 linear, much shorter than the second. Head and thorax fawn- 

 colour, the latter with a blackish band. Legs smooth, stout ; femora 

 slightly fringed. Wings with two blackish indistinct slightly zig- 

 zag submarginal lines ; marginal festoon black. Fore wings with 

 a broad irregular fawn-coloured costal stripe, and with a black 

 slightly zigzag postmedial line ; four whitish costal subapical 

 points. Hind wings with a short fawn-coloured line by the interior 

 angle. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Selenis longipalpis. 



Fcem. Pallide ochracea; palpi verticem longissime superantes ; 

 abdomen fuscum, basi pallide ochraceum ; ala fuscce, vitta 

 pallide ochracea, linea post media nigricante dentata undu- 

 lata, linea exteriore cinerea denticvlata, lunulis marginalibus 

 nigris ; anlica? striga submarginali alba obliqua. 



Female. Pale dull ochraceous, brownish cinereous beneath. 

 Palpi pubescent, rising very much higher than the vertex; third 



