LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1205 



Fawn-colour. Thorax with a white band in front, and another 

 behind. Abdomen with an abbreviated white stripe. Legs partlv 

 clothed with white hairs. Wings with the vitreous band bordered 

 with black on the inner side, and with tawny on the outer side ; 

 part beyond the band powdered with black, and partly with blue 

 and red. Fore wings gray along the costa, behind which towards 

 the base there is a white band, which forms a slightly acute angle, 

 the fore side of the latter is bordered with black ; the hind side 

 forms a continuous stripe with the hind band of the thorax ; near 

 each tip a large lilac spot, which on the outer side is bordered with 

 white ; the latter hue is bordered with red in front and with luteous 

 behind, and a black spot adjoins the luteous part ; exterior border 

 testaceous, with a slender undulating blackish band. Hind wings 

 with a white oblique band near the base ; exterior border tawny, 

 with a slender undulating black band, which is accompanied on the 

 inner side by a row of black spots ; the latter decrease in size suc- 

 cessively hindward. Length of the body 10 — 15 lines ; of the wings 

 i 48— 60 lines. 



Colombia. 



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



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



d. ? Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



Group 3. 



Antennae thorace fere longiores. Alae amplae, macula maxima 

 trigona fasciaque vitreis ; antieae apud costam convexae, margine 

 exteriore subobliquo vix concavo ; posticae valde latiores quam 

 longae, abdomen plus dimidio superantes. Mas. — Antennae late 

 pectinatae ; alae antieae vix fulcatae. 



Antennae full as long as the thorax. Abdomen extending to 

 more than one-third of the breadth of the hind wings. Wings 

 ample ; each with a very large discal distinctly triangular vitreous 

 spot, and with a vitreous band like that of A. Arethusa. Fore 

 wings convex in front, hardly falcate at the tips, hardly concave, 

 and very slightly oblique along the exterior border; vitreous spot 

 with straight sides, forming a right angle towards the costa. Hind 

 wings very much broader than long, very much broader than the 

 fore wings ; spot very little larger than that of the fore wings, its 

 sides less straight, and its angles more rounded. 



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