1360 CATALOGUE OF 



Glyphodes EXCELSALIS. 



Form. Alba; caput pallide ochraceum, vitta tenui cupreo-fusca ; 

 palpi cupreo-fusci, porrecti, rostriformes, subtus albi; thorax 

 et abdomen vitta cupreo-fusca nigro marginata ; thorax strigis 

 duabus lateralibus cupreis ; alee subhyalina?, fascia submar- 

 ginali cupreo-fusca argenteo-cinereo marginata, linea marginali 

 nigra ; antica? vitta trigona obscure ochracea nigro marginata 

 lineolam albam obliquam includente, fascia obscure ochracea 

 nigro marginata apud costam dilatata lineolas duas albas stri- 

 gamque lineolamque cyaneas includente, fascia exteriore sub- 

 interrupta nigricante, fascia adhuc exteriore cyanea albido 

 marginata ; postica? litura lineisque quatuor enpreo-fuscis. 



Female. White. Head pa{e ochraceous above, with a cupreous- 

 brown longitudinal line. Palpi cupreous-brown, white beneath, 

 porrect, rostriform, as long as the breadth of the head. Thorax and 

 abdomen with a cupreous-brown black-bordered stripe. Thorax with 

 a short cupreous stripe on each side in front. Legs slender; fore 

 femora with a cupreous stripe ; fore tibia? and fore tarsi pale ochra- 

 ceous. Wings iridescent, slightly hyaline, with a cupreous-brown 

 submarginal band, which is bordered with silvery cinereous on the 

 inner side ; marginal line black. Fore wings acute ; a triangular dark 

 ochraceous stripe, widening from the base to nearly two-thirds of the 

 length, occupying the basal part of the costa, touching the interior bor- 

 der at half the length of the latter, broadly bordered with black along 

 its hind side, with a narrow black line along its outer side, containing 

 a short oblique white line, which extends from the costa ; a dark 

 ochraceous black-bordered band, dilated towards the costa, con- 

 taining two white lines and an intermediate blue streak in its hind 

 part and a blue line in front connecting on the interior border the 

 stripe with an exterior blackish band, which is almost interrupted 

 iu the middle ; the latter is divided from the submarginal band by 

 a blue band, which is bordered on each side by a whitish line; ex- 

 terior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings 

 with a slender cupreous-brown mark in the disk, and with four cu- 

 preous brown lines, which are approximate and almost parallel to 

 the submarginal band. Length of the body 6. lines; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



a. Swan Eiver. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



