1080 CATALOGUE OF 



spots in the disk between the base and the first line. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus HYPERNARIA, C. L. H. xv. 1613. 



Hypernaria basigera. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina ; palpi pubescentes, suberecti, verticem 

 longissime superantes, articulo So cinereo lineari ; antenna 

 setosce ; alee nigro subconspersce ; anticce linea basali angnlosa 

 lineaque obliqua vix arcuata rufis, punctis quatuor submar- 

 ginalibus albidis nigro nolatis. 



Male. Reddish fawn-colour, pale fawn-colour beneath. Palpi 

 pubescent, nearly erect, rising very much higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint cinereous, linear, rounded at the tip, more than half the 

 length of the second. Antennae setose. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings; apical tuft small, slightly compressed. 

 Legs smooth, slender ; spurs very long and slender. Wings thinly 

 black-speckled; under side thickly brown-speckled, with a brown 

 oblique hardly undulating line. Fore wings acute, with a red zig- 

 zag line near the base, and with a more distinct oblique hardly 

 curved red line, which extends from the tip to somewhat beyond 

 the middle of the exterior border; four submarginal whitish more 

 or less black-marked points. Length of the body Jl lines; of the 

 wings 24 lines. 



a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Hypernaria rtjbripalpis. 



Mas. Cervina ; fasciculus frontalis porrectus ; palpi graciles, 

 pubescentes, erecti, longissimi, articulo 2o extus rufo ; aim 

 amplce, nigro conspersce, lineis duabus nigricantibus angu- 

 losis diffusis, linea exteriore ferruginea obliqua recta, linea 

 submarginali e maculis nigris ; anticce strigis costalibus 

 nigris obliquis, orbiculari e annulo nigro, reniformi nigro 

 submarginata, maculis duabus posterioribus nigris connexit. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Frontal tuft very prominent. Palpi 

 pubescent, slender, erect, much longer than the breadth of the head, 

 and rising very high above the vertex ; second joint red on the 

 outer side ; third linear, much shorter than the second. Antennas 

 slender, setose. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings ; 



