HO CATALOGUE OF 



brown disk. Hind wings darker towards the exterior border ; exte- 

 rior and submarginal lines distinct and denticulated on the under 

 side. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



South America. 

 Group I. 

 Like the third North American group. 



26. Hekminia Khetusalis. 



Mas. Fusca, sat valida ; thorax nigricans; palpi validi, recti, 

 oblique ascendentes, articulo 3o albido-cinereo ; tibice anticce 

 fascicular ; tarsi medii testacei ; alee anticce subpurpuras- 

 centes 9 lineis nigris denticulatis, submarginali testacea denti- 

 culata. Var. /3. — Major ; tibice anticce testacece ; alee anticce 

 lineis valde indistinctis, fascia pallida undulata. 



Male. Brown, comparatively stout. Head, palpi and thorax 

 mostly black. Palpi stout, straight, obliquely ascending ; third 

 joint whitish cinereous, less than half the length of the second. 

 A n ten n SB with rather long seta?, stout and straight to three-fourths 

 of the length, where they are incrassated and tufted, and from 

 thence to the tips much convoluted. Fore tibiae tufted. Middle 

 tarsi testaceous. Fore wings with a slight purplish tinge; interior 

 and exterior lines black, denticulated ; submarginal line testaceous, 

 denticulated, indistinctly apparent on the hind wings, as is also the 

 exterior one; reniform mark black, with a testaceous border. 

 Var. /3. — Larger. Fore tibiae testaceous. Fore wings with the 

 lints very indistinct; a pale undulating band between the exterior 

 line and the submarginal one. This may be a distinct species. 

 Length of the body 7 — 8 lines ; of the wings 16 — 18 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Group 2. 

 Antennae articulo 3o fimbriate 

 Antennae with the third joint fringed. 





