J 368 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Fawn-colour, whitish beneath. Wings with an inter- 

 rupted black marginal line; under side with the usual marginal 

 band, which in the fore wings is interrupted in the middle and is 

 dilated in front, where it contains a whitish apical spot. Fore 

 wings with several slightly undulating brown lines; interior space 

 (excepting the base) shaded with brown, which hue is dilated hind- 

 ward and has a blackish tinge along the interior border ; exterior 

 hand composed of three lines, obliterated hind ward by the brown 

 hue. Hind wings brownish cinereous, dark brown along the in- 

 terior and exterior borders. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



7. Pterocypha deturbata. 



Mas et foem. Cervina, sublus palli.de cinerea ; alee punctis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris elongatis ; anticce lineis plurimis denticulatis 

 nigris fusco plus minusve nebulosis, fascia nonnunquam 

 exteriore albida Informix tinea submarginali cinerea angulosa, 

 margine exteriore perobliquo ; postica fuscescente-cinerea. 



Male and female. Fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with black marginal elongated points; under side with a brown 

 marginal band, which includes a guttular whitish submarginal line, 

 and is much dilated in the fore wings, where it contains a broad 

 transverse whitish streak, proceeding from the costa. Fore wings 

 hardly acute, with many denticulated black lines, more or less 

 shaded with brown, sometimes with a broad irregular exterior 

 whitish band ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag; exterior border 

 slightly convex, very oblique. Hind wings brownish cinerous. 

 Length of the body 5 — o^ lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a — d. St. Domiugo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



8. PfEROCYPHA RUPTIFERATA. 



Foem. Cervina, P. pannosatae valde affinis ; caput obscure fuscnm ; 

 alee anticce fasciis tribus subparallelis e lineis denticulatis 

 nigris, linea submarginali e punctis albidis ; postivce fasciis 

 duabus antice obsoletis. 



Female. Fawn-colour, with a cinereous tinge beneath, nearly 

 allied to P. pannosata. Head dark brown. Wings with brown 

 marginal lunules. Fore wings acute, with three oblique nearly 

 parallel bands, each of which is composed of two black denticulated 



