18 CATALOGUE OE 



Male. Bright orange. Head whitish, black about the eyes. 

 Antennae, palpi and legs black ; palpi, femora and tibiae whitish be- 

 neath. Apical part of the; wings beneath and of the fore wings 

 above whitish, with black-bordered veins and with a black fringe. 

 Hind wings deep black towards the tips. Length of the body 6—8 

 lines ; of the wings 16 — 20 lines. 



a, b. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



c. Bogota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



d— f. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus 24. AUDIA. 



Fcsm. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocris. palpi 

 laeves, porrecti, lanceolati, approximati, capitis latitudine paullo 

 breviores ; articulus 3us 2i dimidio paullo longior. Abdomen alas 

 posticus non superans. Pedes sat graciles ; tibiae posticag quadrical- 

 caratae. Alae anticae latiusculae, subacutae. 



Female. Body rather stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 smooth, porrect, lanceolate, approximate, a little shorter than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint lanceolate, a little more than half 

 the length of the second. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs smooth, rather slender; hind tibiae with four long 

 spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings slightly acute; costa 

 straight ; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. 



1. AUDIA MIXTALIS. 



Fcem. Cana, subtus pallid e flavescens ; caput antice rufescens ; 

 alee anticce nigro subconspersce, fasciis duabus rufescentibus, 

 2a latissima, lineis duabus intermediis nigricantibus sub- 

 rectis, gutta discali rufa nigro marginata, lituris duabus cos- 

 talibus diffusis nigricantibus, punctis marginalibus nigris ; 

 postica flavescentes, fusco conspersce subtus rufescenles. 



Female. Hoary, pale yellowish beneath. Head in front and 

 palpi brick-red. Wings thinly black-speckled. Fore wings with 

 two brick-red bands, of which the second is very broad and extends 

 to the exterior border ; two blackish nearly straight lines between 

 the bands, the outer one connected with a large red black-bordered 

 discal dot ; two diffuse blackish marks on the costa towards the tip; 

 marginal points black ; under side reddish towards the tips. Hind 

 wings yellowish, with brown speckles, some of which form two 

 patches on the exterior border ; under side reddish, minutely 



