LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 417 



Female. Blackish purple. Body cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 erect, smooth, acute, not rising higher than the vertex. Thorax 

 with four dull ochraceous stripes. Abdomen extending somewhat 

 beyond the hind wings. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with 

 numerous transverse gilded ochraceous streaks, which are most 

 numerous towards the exterior border; six oblique yellowish streaks 

 along the costa, which has a greenish tinge towards the base; costa 

 and exterior border very slightly convex, the latter hardly oblique. 

 Hind wings ochraceous, with a broad submarginal blackish purple 

 band. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



13. Gatjris pulsana. 



Fcein. Purpuras cente-nigr a ; corpus subtus albidum ; caput ochra- 

 ceum ; ala? anticce acutce, linea transversa basali, strigis tribus 

 exterioribus lineaque submarginali ochraceis, striga 2a inter- 

 rupta furcata ; posticce ochracece, linea submarginali nigro- 

 purpurea. 



Female. Purplish black. Body whitish and shining beneath. 

 Head ochraceous. Palpi lanceolate, smooth, slender, obliquely 

 ascending, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 about half the length of the second. Abdomen gilded, hardly 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Fore wings acute, with an 

 ochraceous transverse line near the base, with three exterior ochra- 

 ceous streaks and with a submarginal ochraceous line ; first streak 

 oblique, joining the costa at its inner end; second interrupted, 

 forked at the tip; third recurved at each end, joining the interior 

 border at its outer end ; costa and exterior border slightly convex, 

 the latter rather oblique. Hind wings ochraceous, with a purplish 

 black submarginal line. Length of the body 2\ lines; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



a, b. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



c. Honduras. Presented by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



14. Gatjris qtjadrivittana. 



Nigro-purpurea, subtus albida ; thorax lineis quatuor punctoque 

 postico oehraceis ; abdominis segmenta luteo marginata ; alee 

 anticce strigis basalibus et submarginalibus, macula costali 

 macvlaque discali furcata oehraceis; postica nigro-fuscce, 

 macula discali fiava. 



