LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1111 



oblique along the exterior border ; a black dot near the costa at one- 

 fifth of the length, and two black dots in a transverse line near the 

 exterior border and behind the middle of the latter. Hind wings 

 testaceous. Length of the body 6£ lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



2. Amydona lucens. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; antenna testacece, mediocriter pectinatce ; pedes 

 ex parte albido hirti; alee anticce albicantes, apud costam 

 nigro conspersce ; posticce pallide fusees, apud marginem inte- 

 riorem albidce. 



Male. Ferruginous. Antennae testaceous, moderately pecti- 

 nated. Pectus mostly testaceous. Legs partly clothed with whitish 

 hairs. Fore wings with a whitish gloss, rounded at the tips, with 

 some minute black flecks along the costa ; exterior border oblique. 

 Hind wings pale brown, whitish along the interior border ; Under 

 side whitish, with minute black flecks about the borders. Length of 

 the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



3. Amydona punctata. 



Mas. Pallide ferruginea ; antennce mediocriter pectinatce ; alee 

 anticce pallide fuscce, fascia lata obliqua obscure fusca fasciis- 

 que nonnullis obliquis angustis angulosis albidis, guttisque 

 exterioribus nigricantibus. 



Male. Pale ferruginous. Antennae testaceous, moderately 

 pectinated. Fore wings pale brown, narrower than those of the two 

 preceding species, more rounded at the tips and more oblique along 

 the exterior border than in A. lucens ; a broad oblique darker brown 

 band near the middle, and on each side of it some whitish oblique 

 slender zigzag bands; a deep black spot on the discal areolet, and 

 a blackish oblique mark near the tip of the costa ; also a line 

 of black dots near and parallel to the exterior border. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



Var. #. Discal black spot very small ; zigzag bands indistinct. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



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