LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1089 



beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings nearly to 

 the tips of the fore wings, on approaching which it is very acutely 

 retracted and is slightly undulating from thence to the costa; a 

 brownish diffuse incomplete submarginal band including white 

 black-marked points ; marginal points black, elongated ; fringe 

 reddish, paler at the base ; under side wilh a brown slightly denti- 

 culated postmedial line, and with white submarginal dots. Fore 

 wings subfalcate ; orbicular mark forming a black point ; reniform 

 white, black-bordered, very large. Length of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 20 lines. 



Bio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



HYPERNARIA ? TENEBROSA. 



Mas. Nigra ; palpi lati, pubescentes, oblique ascendentes, verticem 

 non superantes, articulo 3o brevissimo ; antennce setosce ; ab- 

 dominis fasciculus apicalis apice albidus ; pedes graciles, 

 femoribus tiibisque anticis late fimbriatis ; alee latee, lineis 

 nonnullis vix conspicuis e atomis albis, linea submarginali 

 magis determinata, punctis marginalibus albis. 



Male. Black, slender, dark brown beneath. Palpi broad, 

 pubescent, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; 

 third joint extremely short. Antenna? strongly setose. Abdomen 

 extending much beyond the hind wings; apical tuft elongate, 

 slightly compressed, whitish at the tip. Legs slender; fore femora 

 and fore tibiae broadly fringed. Wings broad, with white speckles ; 

 these are disposed in lines, all of which are incomplete and indis- 

 tinct, except the submarginal one ; marginal points white ; under 

 side with a postmedial hardly undulating blackish line. Length of 

 the body 8 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Hypernaria? punctularis. 



Mas. Fusca ; fasciculus frontalis porrectus, cinereo marginatus ; 

 palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem longe superantes, articulo 

 2o lato, So cinereo brevi gracili lineari ; antenna validce, 

 setosce ; pedes longi, gradles, femoribus tibiisque anticis brevi- 

 usculis robustis fimbria tis ; alee lineis tribus nigricantibus 

 angulosis, 3a duplicata, linea submarginali duplicata e punctis 

 nigris, reniformi magna f us co marginata subtus cinereo mar- 

 ginata ; anticce vix acutee, orbiculari e annulo nigricante. 



