1334 CATALOGUE OF 



Wings broad, cinereous, minutely black-speckled. Fore wings 

 rounded at the tips, with three ferruginous-red patches ; first patch 

 basal, very large, bordered on the outer side by an undulating white 

 line ; second and third bordered on the inner side by a deeply an- 

 gular white line ; second on the outer part of the interior border ; 

 third apical, bordered on the outer side by a white line ; a white 

 lunule in the disk, bordering the inner side of an aeneous-cinereous 

 spot, which is connected with the angular line; marginal line brightly 

 gilded. Hind wings with a brightly gilded marginal line, which is 

 accompanied by deep black points. Length of the body 4 lines; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



a. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 

 6. Jamaica. From M. Gosse's collection. 



Cataclysta confusalis. 



Mas et foem. Argenteo-alba, gracilis; palpi graciles, oblique 

 ascendentes, verticem non superantes, articulo 2o fimbriato, So 

 lance olato ; thoracis latera antica fusca ; abdominis segmenta 

 fusco fasciata ; alee fascia antemedia excavata lineaque exte- 

 riore fuscis ; anticce spatio costali postmedia et apud marginem 

 exteriorem fusca?, ochraceo varim, lineis duabus postmediis 

 fuscis, lineis duabus submarginalibus albis ; postica nigricante 

 conspersa?>guttis sex marginalibus atris ochraceo submarginatis 

 purpureo punctatis. 



Male and female. Silvery white, slender. Palpi slender, ob- 

 liquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; second joint 

 fringed beneath ; third lanceolate, nearly as long as the second. 

 Antenna of the male pubescent. Thorax brown on each side in 

 front. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings, with a 

 brown band on the fore border of each segment. Wings with a 

 brown oblique excavated antemedial band ; a brown Hue near and 

 almost parallel to the outer side of the band. Fore wings acute, 

 brown and partly ochraceous about the outer half of the costa and 

 along the exterior border ; two irregular brown lines beyond the line 

 before mentioned ; two white lines converging from the costa towards 

 the interior angle. Hind wings minutely blackish-speckled beyond 

 the middle; six deep black partly ochraceous-bordered marginal 

 dots, each containing a brilliant purple point. Length of the body 

 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



a, b* North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



