1182 CATALOGUE OF 



1. OXYTENIS ZERBINA. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi fusci; pedes fasciis nigricantibus ; alee ex 

 parte luteo Jiavce fascia angnsta obliqua fuscescente, exttts 

 cinerece fasciis duabus undulosis nigricantibus spatioque in- 

 termedio rufescente ; posticce fascia basali nigricante. 



Phalaena Attacus Zerbina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 171, pi. 287, f. 3. 

 Syssaura Zerbina, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalance Sphingoides 

 Platyplerices Falcatce), 150, 1574. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Palpi brown. Antennae testaceous. 

 Legs witb blackish bands, which are most prevalent on the fore 

 legs. Wings, especially the fore wings, partly luteous-yellow, with 

 a very slender oblique brownish band, which extends from the tips 

 of the fore wings to somewhat beyond the middle of the interior 

 border of the hind wings; the wings from just beyond this band to 

 the exterior border are gray, with two slender undulating blackish 

 bands, which include a reddish space. Hind wings with a blackish 

 band, which is near the base, and appears on the interior border of 

 the fore wings ; interior border ciliated. Length of the body 5 — 7 

 lines ; of the wings 24 — 30 lines. 



Var. (5. Wings paler, with very little fawn-colour. 



a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



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



2. OXYTENIS HONESTA. 



Mas. Ferruginea, nigro punctata ; alee fasciis duabus perobliquis, 

 antica angusta saturate ferruginea, postica nigricante extus 

 repanda ; alee anticce maculis tribus discalibus nigricantibus 

 strigaque subapicali nigra. 



Phalaena Attacus honesta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 25, pi. 302, f. C. D. 

 Syssaura honesta, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 150, 1575. 



Male. Ferruginous, sprinkled with black. Wings with two 

 very oblique bands ; the fore one dark ferruginous, very narrow ; 

 the hind one blackish, diffuse exteriorly. Fore wings with three 

 blackish discal spots, and with a black subapical streak along the 

 exterior border. Under side more luteous ; wings hindward grayish 

 brown ; fore wings with a black band bordering the brown part ; 

 hind wings with a black discal dot. 



Surinam. 



