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wings acute, subfalcate ; costa straight, very slightly convex towards 

 the base, where there is a pouch ; exterior border slightly convex 

 and oblique, hardly excavated in front. 



1. TORDA PENICILLANA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; alee anticce ochraceo-rufce, basi fasciaque lata 

 obliqua pur pur an cert te-cinereis, lineis duabus alb is, \a recta, 

 2a undulata, fasciculo subtus atro ; posticce fuscescente- 

 cinerea, striga postica lata rufa. 



Male. Cinereous. Lateral tufts of the abdomen red ; dorsal 

 tuft black. Win^s tinged with metallic lustre. Fore wiugs ochra- 

 ceous-red, purplish cinereous at the base, with a broad oblique 

 purplish cinereous band, through which the ground hue is apparent; 

 thi* line is bordered by two white lines; first line straight, more 

 distiuct than the exterior one, which is undulating ; under side with 

 a deep black penicillate tuft in the disk near the base. Hind wings 

 brownish cinereous, with a broad red streak, which extends from the 

 disk to the hind part of the exterior horder ; fringe reddish, tipped 

 with cinereous. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates collection. 



2. Tor da dilatatana. 



Fcem. Rvfescente-cervina ; palpi apice nigri ; pectus et abdomen 

 argenteo- cinerea ; tibice et tarsorum articuli apice nigra ; alee 

 anticcB ex parte pallidiores, atomis nonnullis nigris, fascia 

 purpuraseente tineaque marginali ferrugineis, strigula costati 

 subapicali albida interrupta ; posticce pallide lutece, plaga 

 apicali diffusa fuscescente, punctis marginalibus cervinis. 



Female. Eeddish fawn-colour, rather stout. Frontal tuft 

 prominent. Proboscis stout. Palpi porrect, slender, smooth, shorter 

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

 less than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae smooth. 

 Pectus and abdomen silvery cinereous, the latter not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; tips of the tibiae and of the 

 joints of the tarsi black ; tibiae slightly fringed ; hind tibiae with four 

 long spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings rectangular at the tips, 

 here and there paler ; a pouch near the base of the costa, partly 

 covered by a squamous fringe ; a few black speckles and a narrow 

 pale purpfe marginal band, the latter accompanied by a ferruginous 

 line; a whitish short oblique interrupted streak near the tip of the 



