LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1541 



Female. Whitish. Head with a blackish band. Palpi porrect, 

 slender, extending very little beyond the head ; third joint conical, 

 minute. Abdomen with an irregular olive-green band on each seg- 

 ment. Wings broad, with two irregular incomplete bands, and a 

 very broad marginal space olive-green ; a few small ochraceous 

 patches; an exterior slightly undulating line of black points; sub- 

 marginal Hue whitish, zigzag; marginal lunules olive-green ; under 

 side with a broad marginal brownish cinereous band. Fore wings 

 hardly acute, with an interior line of black points ; exterior border 

 convex. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. Hamlet Clark. 



Tephrosia delosaria. 



Fcem. Nigricante-cinerea ; alee nigricante conspersce, lineis inte- 

 riore et exteriore nigris denticulatis subundulatis, lined sub- 

 marginali nigra valde interrupta, punctis marginalibus nigris, 

 gutta discali nigricante ; anticce apice rotundatce. 



Female. Blackish cinereous, paler beneath. Wings blackish- 

 speckled ; interior and exterior lines black, denticulated, slightly 

 undulating, the former obsolete in the hind wings; submarginal 

 line black, very incomplete; marginal points black; discal dot 

 blackish, largest on the under side, where the lines are nearly obso- 

 lete. Fore wings somewhat rounded at the tips ; costa straight ; 

 exterior border convex, rather oblique. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 17 lines. 



a. South Africa. From Mr. Trimen's collection. 



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Tephrosia subrugata. 



Foem. Albida, robusta ; caput nigricante fasciatum ; palpi por- 

 recti, breves, lad, obtusi ; alee elongake, fusco conspersce, lineis 

 quatuor dentatis diffusis fuscis, 4a submarginali incomplete 

 striga discali punctisque marginalibus nigricantibus ; anticce 

 apice rotundatce. 



Female. Whitish, stout. Head with a narrow blackish band 

 in front. Palpi porrect, short, broad, obtuse, extending a little 

 beyond the head; third joint extremely short. Wings elongate, 

 brown-speckled, with four dentate irregular diffuse brown lines ; 

 fourth line submarginal, incomplete ; discal streak and marginal 



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