406 CATALOGUE OF 



costa very slightly convex ; exterior border slightly oblique hind- 

 ward. Hind wings blackish brown. Length of the body 3J lines; 

 of the wings 9 lines. 



a — d. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 

 e. Ega. From Mr. Bates 5 collection. 



Female. Ferruginous. Body pale cinereous beneath. Abdo- 

 men cinereous-brown, extending beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings rectangular at the tips, with a few black speckles, and with 

 two short oblique blackish streaks, which extend from the interior 

 border towards the disk ; first streak slender, near the base ; second 

 broad, curved outward ; a few minute longitudinal submarginal 

 black streaks ; a cinereous spot by the interior angle ; costa straight, 

 with oblique very minute black marks ; exterior border very oblique 

 hind ward. Hind wings dark brown. Length of the body 3 lines; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



/. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



30. Carpocapsa assumptana. 



Foem. Purpurascente-nigra ; corpus subtus albidum ; caput et 

 thorax an ticus ochracea ; thorax ochraceo bivittatus ; abdomen 

 nigro-cuprenm, ; alee antiece apice subrotundata, guttis pluri- 

 mis strigulis basalibus lituraque submarginali ochraceis, stri- 

 gulis costalibus obliquis pallide flavescenlibus ; posticce 

 ochracea?, nigricante marginatce, fimbria pallide ochracea. 



Female. Purplish black. Body whitish and shining beneath. 

 Head and fore part of the thorax ochraceous. Palpi porrect, shorter 

 than the breadth of the head; third joint elongate-conical, less 

 than half the lengrh of the second. Antennae rather short and stout. 

 Thorax with two ochraceous stripes. Abdomen blackish cupreous. 

 Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, with very numerous small 

 ochraceous dots; basal part with longitudinal ochraceous streaks; a 

 transverse irregularly 8-shaped ochraceous mark along the hind 

 part of the exterior border ; costa slightly convex, with some minute 

 oblique pale yellowish marks along its exterior part ; exterior border 

 slightly convex and oblique. Hind wings ochraceous, broadly and 

 diffusedly blackish bordered ; fringe pale ochraceous. Length of 

 the body 2\ lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



