LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1193 



Var. /3. Exterior band of the fore wings bordered with yellow 

 on the inner side. 



Var. y. Fore wings with some exterior pale spots like those of 

 the hind wings. 



Var. 8. Bands on the hind wings more strongly marked than 

 on the fore wings. 



a, b. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection, 

 c, d. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 

 e. Brazil. From Mr. Children's collection. 



Fcem. ? Pallide cinerea ; antenna vix pectinate ; alee fusco con- 

 spersa? fasciaque angusta recta obliqua fusca intus cano mar- 

 ginata, fasciisque duabus subobsoletis ; anticce macula discali 

 fusca ; posticce abdomen vix superantes. 



Female ? Pale cinereous. Wings minutely and rather thickly 

 flecked with brown, and having a slender straight oblique brown 

 band, which has a hoary border on its inner side, and extends from 

 the tips of the fore wings to somewhat beyond the middle of the in- 

 terior border of the hind wings ; two other very indistinct bands, 

 one near the base, the other near the exterior border. Fore wing 

 with a brown discal spot, which is straitened in the middle. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 32 lines 



a. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



Div. II. 



Fcem. Corpus sat robustum. Caput et thorax lanuginosa. 

 Antennae vix pectiuatae, thorace paullo breviores. Alae latae, sat 

 longae ; anticae apud costam subcouvexae, apice falcatae, margine ex- 

 teriore subobliquo vix convexo; posticae latiores, abdomen longe 

 superantes. 



Female. Body rather stout. Head and thorax lanuginose. 

 Antennae hardly pectinated, a little shorter than the thorax. Abdo- 

 men extending to about two-thirds of the breadth of the hind wings. 

 Wings broad, rather long. Fore wings slightly convex along the 

 costa, falcate at the tips, slightly oblique and very slightly convex 

 along the exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; three inferior 

 veins; second about twice further from the third than from the first. 

 Hind wings broader than the fore wings; exterior border hardly 

 angular. 



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