

JLEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1391 



Var.P Male. Pale fawn-colour. Palpi directly ascending, 

 not rising higher than the vertex; third joint acutely conical. 

 Antennae hardly puhescent. Abdomen with minute tufts along 

 each side; fourth and fifth segments with a black point on each of 

 their fore borders. Fore wings elongate, acute, tinged with dull 

 green in part of the disk and along the exterior border, blackish 

 shaded from near the base to the exterior line ; the latter is deep 

 black, dentate, undulating, very prominent in the middle, whitish- 

 bordered on the outer side ; iuterior line deep black, slightly denti- 

 culated ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag; some other indistinct 

 black lines; marginal dots black; a large transverse white costal 

 spot between the interior and exterior lines; fringe with blackish 

 marks. Hind wings dingy whitish, with a blackish apical patch. 

 Wings beneath whitish, with some black markings, which chiefly 

 consist of a marginal band on the hind wings, and with two patches 

 in front on the fore wings, the second patch excavated by an apical 

 whitish spot. Length of the body 6J lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



28. ClDARIA MCERARIA. 



Mas. Rufescente-fusca ; antennae pubescentes ; alee anticce acuta, 

 viridi muscoso varies, spatio medio marginibus obscurioribus, 

 tinea exteriore sinuata dentata ; posticee fumoso-fusca?, plica 

 apud marginem interiorem penicillum album includente. 



Cidaria mceraria, Guen. PhaL ii. 458, 1656. 

 Brazil ? 



29. Cidaria subguttaria. 



Viridis ; alee elongates ; anlica? nigro-fuscee, lineis (nonnullis 

 interruptis) denticulatis viridibus, fascia exteriore onguata 

 undulata carnea intus albo marginata, linea submarginali 

 strigaque obliqua apicali albis, macula subtus magna discali 

 exteriore alba; posticee nigricantes. 



Larentia subguttaria, Moriz, Herr.-Sch. Exot. Schm. pi. 71, f. 406, 



407. 

 Cidaria subguttaria, Guen. Phal. ii. 458, 1657. 



Venezuela. 



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