1628 CATALOGUE OF 



outer side by a pale cinereous brown-bordered streak ; exterior border 

 falcate and deeply excavated hindward. Fore wings with subfalcate 

 tips; discal point black. Hind wings with a purplish cinereous 

 subrnarginal tinge; exterior border slightly excavated in front. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Ekosia subpatulata. 



Fcem. Albido-cinerea ; antenna validce ; alee ferrugineo conspersce; 

 anticce costa interiore nigricante conspersa ; lineis duabus rectis 

 postice abbreviatis maculaque apud marginem interiorem fer- 

 rugineis ; posticce fasciis duabus abbreviatis ferrugineis, la 

 interrupla, margine exteriore bis inciso bidentato atro uni- 

 punctato. 



Female. Whitish cinereous. Antennae stout, smooth. Wings 

 irregularly ferruginous-speckled. Fore wings with some blackish 

 speckles along the interior part of the cosla; two oblique straight 

 ferruginous lines, which extend from the costa to the disk and there 

 terminate; a ferruginous spot on the interior border corresponding 

 to the first band of the hind wings; exterior border slightly convex 

 and oblique. Hind wings with two excavations, and with two long 

 acute teeth on the exterior border; second tooth accompanied by a 

 deep black point ; two ferruginous bands, the first abbreviated in 

 front and interrupted, the second much abbreviated hindward. 

 Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders 7 collection. 



Erosia bistrigata. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; caput antice fuscum ; palpi porrecti, acuti, 

 caput non superantes ; antenna Iceves, compressce ; alee elongata, 

 nigro conspersce, lineis tribus saturatioribus indistinctis, la 

 2aque subundulatis, 3a marginali ; anticce apice rectangulatce, 

 linea marginali fimbriaque ex parte nigricantibus, margine 

 exteriore jiexo ; posticce margine exteriore subexcavato. 



Male. Ferruginous, paler beneath. Head dark brown in front. 

 Palpi porrect, slender, acute, not extending beyond the head. An- 

 tenna? smooth, compressed. Wings elongate, thickly black-speckled, 

 with three indistinct brighter ferruginous lines, of which the interior 

 and exterior lines are slightly undulating and the third line is mar- 

 ginal. Fore wings rectangular at the tips; marginal line and fringe 



