

LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 441 



Female. Ochraceous, rather stout, pale yellowish beneath. 

 Palpi stout, nearly vertical ; third joint conical, less than half the 

 length of the second. Antennae squamous, rather stout. Abdomen 

 whitish. Fore tibiae and fore tarsi with blackish bands. Wings 

 with blackish speckles. Fore wings with two semihvaline opaline 

 oblique irregular bands, which join the interior border, but are ab- 

 breviated exteriorly where the second joins a luteous patch, which 

 extends from the costa to the disk ; two submarginal pale gilded 

 lines, which near the interior angle are contiguous to two oblique 

 pale gilded streaks ; marginal line luteous, with a black exterior 

 border. Hind wings white and semihyaline on more than half the 

 basal space, which contains a triangular ochraceous patch, the 

 latter furnished with plumose black hairs; a slight exterior un- 

 dulating brownish line ; ten little deep black gold-spangled margi- 

 nal streaks. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Villa Nova. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



11. Cataclysta Ilialis. 



Foern. Ochracea, subtus alba; antennce submoniliformes, corpore 

 non breviores ; thorax antice albus, fusco bifasciatus : abdo- 

 men albo fasciatum ; alee lineis quatuor albis nigro margina- 

 tis, linea marginali nigra, fimbria alba ; antica? lineis 2a 

 Saque vulde angulosis, line o lis duabus exterioribus disco con- 

 nexis, reniformi nigra angusta valde obliqua ; posticce guttis 

 duabus marginalibus nigris albo punctatis, margine exteriore 

 apicem versus inciso. 



Female. Ochraceous, white beneath. Palpi white, of the 

 typical form. Antennae submoniliform, as long as the body. Fore 

 part of the thorax white, with two brown bands. Abdomen with 

 white bands. Wings with four white black-bordered lines ; margi- 

 nal line black; fringe white. Fore wings with the second and 

 third lines forming each a very acute angle; two white black- 

 bordered half lines proceeding from the costa and united in 

 the disk between the third and fourth lines ; reniform mark black, 

 narrow, very oblique, attenuated hindward. Hind wings with two 

 black white-pointed marginal dots ; exterior border with a deep 

 notch near the tip. Length of the body 3^ lines; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



