1336 CATALOGUE OF 



Legs smooth, slender. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, with 

 a broad cinereous middle band, and with two white lines ; first line 

 antemedial, curved outward, joining the interior border very near the 

 base of the latter ; second at three-fourths of the length, much bent 

 outward ; exterior border convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings 

 pale cinereous, with a brilliant cupreous line along the middle part 

 of the exterior border. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Cataclysta divulsalis. 



Mas. Argentea ; palpi graciles, oblique ascendentes, articulo So 

 lanceolato 2o non breviore; antenna vix nodosa ; pedes gra- 

 cillimi; alee perangustce ; anticce macula basali, fascia obliqua 

 interrupta, macula magna subapicali fusco marginata fimbria- 

 que ochyaceis, spatio medio albido nigro consperso ; posticce 

 albidce, lineis tribvs niyris obliquis dentatis, vitta apud mar- 

 ginem interiorem argentea, fascia marginali atra guttas quatuor 

 virides micantes guttasque tres ochraceas includente, 



Male. Silvery. Palpi smooth, slender, obliquely ascending ; 

 third joint lanceolate, as long as the second. Antenna? slender, 

 hardly nodose. Abdomen extending for more than half its length 

 beyond the hind wings; apical tuft small, compressed. Legs smooth, 

 very slender. Wings very narrow. Fore wings acute, with an och- 

 raceous spot very near the base, and with an oblique dull ochraceous 

 band, which is interrupted in the middle and extends from the costa 

 to the interior angle ; middle part of the wings whitish, minutely 

 speckled ancls treaked with black ; a large ochraceous subapicaljjspot, 

 bordered with brown on the outer side; fringe ochraceous. Hind 

 wings whitish, with three oblique dentate black lines; a silvery 

 stripe along the interior border; exterior border deep black, with 

 three ochraceous and with four brilliant metallic-green dots. Length 

 of the body 2 J lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



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Cataclysta divisalis. 



Foem. Argenteo-alba ; palpi gracillimi, oblique ascendentes, basi 

 nigricantes, articulo So lanceolato; antenna gracillima ; ala 

 anticce fasciis sex pallide ochraceis apud cosiam fusco suffiusis, 





