LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA* 1337 



3a Aaqueapud costam connexis, 3a postice fur cata^Aa 6a 6aque 

 postice eonnexis ; posticce fasciis duabus pallide oehraceis, 

 playa marginali atra puncta aurata micantia includente. 



Female. Silvery white. Palpi smooth, very slender, blackish above 

 towards the base, obliquely ascending, shorter than the breadth of the 

 head ; third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the second. An- 

 tennae very slender. Fore wings with six pale ochraceous bands, which 

 are tinged with brown near the costa; firsthand basal; second near 

 the base ; third antemedial, forked towards the interior border, con- 

 nected on the costa with the fourth ; fourth, fifth and sixth. connected 

 near the interior angle. Hind wings with two pale ochraceous bands 

 and with an elongate deep black patch, which occupies the exterior 

 border and contains some brilliant gilded points. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



o. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Cataclysta dominalis. 



Mas. Pallide ochraced ; palpi erecti, arliculo 2o late fimhriato y 

 3o conico ; antennce robusta, cornubiis duobus basalibus pa? vis; 

 abdomen albidum, lateribus subfaseiculatis ; alee ar yen teo- 

 aiba ; antixce apice rotundatce, vittis duabus fasciisque tribus 

 pallide orhraceis, fasciis 1 a 2aque postice eonnexis, 3a marginali 

 nigro marginata, pli<a snbcostali fimbriata pallide eervina; 

 postita fascia media lata obliqua fasciaque marginali anyusta 

 guttas quatuor atras argenteo signatas includente pallide och- 

 raceis 



Male. Pale ochraceous. Body beneath and legs white. Eyes 

 white-bordered. Palpi erect, not rising so high as the vertex ; second 

 joint broadly fringed ; third conical, minute. Antennae stout, with a 

 clavate appendage at the base. Abdomen whitish, with small tufts 

 along each side, extending much beyond the hind wings ; apical 

 tuft elongate, slightly compressed. Legs long, slender ; tips of the 

 fore tibiae and of the joints of the fore tarsi blackish. Wings silvery 

 white, elongate. Fore wings rounded at the tips ; a pale ochraceous 

 costal stripe and another near the interior border; a fringed pale 

 fawn-coloured subcostal lappet ; two pale ochraceous bands, which 

 are united near the interior angle; a p;ile ochraceous marginal 

 black-bordered band ; exterior border convex, rather oblique. Hind 

 wings with a broad oblique pale ochraceous band in the disk, and 

 with a narrow pale ochraceous marginal band, the latter including 



