1302 CATALOGUE OF 



white, smooth, slender; fore femora blackish above; fore tibiae with 

 two blackish bands. Fore wings with four purplish darker-bordered 

 bands ; first band near the base, very oblique, connected near the 

 interior border with the second, whose disk is mostly of the ground 

 hue; third broad, straight, entire, connected hindward with the 

 fourth, which partly extends to the exterior border, and of which 

 some part of the disk is of the ground hue. Hind wings with a small 

 purplish mark in the disk, with three purplish marks on the interior 

 border, and with a large purplish apical space, which is partly 

 bordered by a darker line on the inner side and is excavated near 

 the interior angle and contains a spot of the ground hue. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Limas, Honduras. Presented by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Samea disertalis. 



Mas. Cupreo-fusca ; palpi porrecti, caput paitllo superantes? 

 articulo 3o brevnsimo ; thorax albo bifasciatus ; abdomen 

 alas posticas longissime superans, segmentis albo marginatis ; 

 alee anticce angustee, e maculis variis albis semihyalinis nigra 

 marginatis trifasciatce, fasciis 2a Saque connexis ; posticae 

 eeneo-albce, maculis tribus, linea exteriore fasciaque marginali 

 lata cupreo-fuscis. 



Male. Cupreous-brown, slender. Body silvery white beneath. 

 Palpi porrect, pilose, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint 

 very short. Antennae smooth, slender. Thorax with two white 

 bands. Abdomen extending very much beyond the hind wings ; 

 hind borders of the segments white. Legs smooth, slender. Wings 

 narrow. Fore wings with three irregular bands, which are formed 

 by clusters of white semihyaline black-bordered spots of various 

 size ; these are smallest and most numerous in the third band, which 

 is connected with the second. Hind wings aeneous-white; three 

 cupreous-brown spots, two in the disk and one on the interior border ; 

 an exterior cupreous-brown line and a broad cupreous-brown mar- 

 ginal band. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a — d. Limas, Honduras. Presented by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Samea discessalis. 



Mas. Cupreo-fusca ; palpi porrecti, pilosi, caput paullo super- 

 antes, articulo So brevissimo ; thorax albido bifasciatus ; ab- 

 dominis segmenta albo marginata ; alee anticoe fasciis tribus 



