LEPIDOPTEEA HETEBOCEBA, 1101 



rufa ; anticce orbiculari e gutta cervina nigro rnarginata ; 

 posticce reniformi flavescente lituram angulatam annulumque 

 interruptum nigricantes includente. 



Male. Very dark red, with a cinereous tinge, brighter beneath. 

 Wings with two exterior blackish oblique undulating lines, which 

 are bordered with cinereous on the outer side; fringe bright red at 

 the base ; under side with whitish markings ; these consist of a very 

 large reniform mark, which is interlined with blackish, and of two 

 exterior lines, of which the first is composed of irregular lunules 

 and the second of points. Fore wings with a fawn-coloured black-bor- 

 dered dot, representing the orbicular mark; reniform beneath, emitting 

 a lanceolate branch towards the base. Hind wings with the reni- 

 form yellowish, round, containing an angular blackish mark in the 

 middle and an incomplete blackish ringlet. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus PGETA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi com- 

 pressi, subarcuati, oblique ascendentes, verticem paullo superantes ; 

 articulus 3us linearis, 2o valde brevior et gracilior. Antennae 

 setulosae. Abdomen postice subattenuatum et subcompressum, alas 

 posticas longe superans. Pedes laeves, sat validi; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus quatuor longissimis. Alae anticae latiusculae, acutae, mar- 

 gine exteriore subconvtxo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis very short. Palpi compressed, 

 obliquely ascending, slightly curved, rising a„ little higher than the 

 vertex ; third joint linear, much more slender than the second, and 

 hardly half its length. Antennae setulose. Abdomen attenuated 

 and slightly compressed hindward, extending much beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs smooth, moderately stout ; hind tibiae with four 

 very long spurs. Wings rather broad. 



PCETA DENOTALIS. 



Mas. Albida, fusco varia ; palporum articulus Sus nigricanle 

 fasciatus ; aim fasciis quatuor albidis deviis interruptis nigri- 

 canle inter lineatis i maculis duabus lunulisque marginalibus 

 nigris ; anticce striga nigricanle ; poslica? fasciis la 2aque 

 obsoletis. 



