1258 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Greenish, speckled with white and with hlack, pale 

 cinereous beneath. Tarsi blackish ; tips of the joints whitish. Fore 

 wings with two undulating 1 acutely dentate black lines; first line 

 near the base; second at two-thirds of the length ; marginal dots 

 black, subquadrate. Hind wings whitish, iridescent, semihyaline, 

 with an seneous-brown marginal band, which is much abbreviated 

 towards the interior angle. Length of the body 6 lines; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus DOCELA. 



Fcem. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi por- 

 recti, graciles, late fitnbriati, corporis latitudine non longiores ; 

 articulus 3us parvus. Antennae gracillimse, suhsetulosoe. Abdomen 

 alas posticas non superans. Pedes glabri. Alae anticae latae, acuta?, 

 margine exteriore convexo subobliquo. 



Female. Body rather slender. Proboscis of the usual length. 

 Palpi porrect, slender, broadly fringed above and beneath, not longer 

 than the breadth of the head; third joint minute. Antennae very 

 slender, very minutely setulose. Abdomen not extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Legs smooth. Wings broad. Fore wings acute ; 

 exterior border convex, slightly oblique. 



DOCELA. VETUSTALIS. 



Fcem. Carta; alee nigric ante conspersce, linea postmedia palliate 

 flavescente ; anticce liners duabus ohscurioribus angulosis in- 

 distinctis, gutta intermedia saturate ochracea, maculis tri- 

 bus postmediis fuseescentibus^ margine exteriore subochraceo, 

 punctis marginalibus nigris ; posticce dimidio apicali fusco. 



Female. Hoary. Body white beneath. Palpi white beneath 

 towards the base. Wings blackish speckled, with a postmedial pale 

 yellowish line, which is very much broader in the hind wings than 

 in the fore wings; fringe long. Fore wings with two indistinct 

 darker zigzag lines and with an intermediate deep ochraceous dot; 

 three brownish spots connected with the outer side of the yellowish 

 line; a dull ochraceous tinge along the exterior border; marginal 

 points black; under side with a blackish apical spot. Hind wings 

 with the exterior half brown. Length of the body 4 J- lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



