1208 CATALOGUE OF 



with a slender undulating brown band. Hind wings with a white 

 oblique band near the base, bordered with black on the outer side ; 

 exterior border with a slender nearly straight brown band, which is 

 accompanied on its inner side by elongated reddish brown spots. 

 Length of the body 15 — 17 lines ; of the wings 60 — 66 lines. 



This species much resembles A. speculifer in form, but the 

 hind wings are broader towards the interior angle, the colouring is 

 different, and so also is the shape of the vitreous spots. 



Var. /3. Wings much brighter orange. Vitreous spot of the 

 hind wings not, or but partly, interrupting the exterior band. 



a, b. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Var. Mas. Ochraceus ; antenna fulvce ; thorax antice alio fas- 

 ciatus ; alarum fascia basim versus alba extus fusco margi- 

 nata, in alis anticis angulata ; macula vitrea trigona ; fascia 

 exterior pallide ochracea intus albo fuscoque extus nigro mar- 

 ginata ; fascia diffusa maculaque subapicalis purpurea, hcec 

 extus albo marginata ; maculce tres subapicales fuscce ; alee pos- 

 ticce maculis submarginalibus elongatis fuscis albido mar- 

 ginatis. 



Male. Orange-colour. Antennae tawny; the branches in 

 pairs, which are ciliated and of equal length. Thorax with a white 

 band in front. Abdomen extending to somewhat less than half the 

 breadth of the hind wings. Wings with a pale orange band, which 

 is bordered with white and with brown on the inner side, and with a 

 blackish hue on the outer side, where there is an adjoining broad 

 diffuse and indistinct purple band, the. latter is bordered with pale 

 brown on the outer side ; a paler purple very large costal subapical 

 spot, which is bordered with white on the outer side, where there is 

 one pale and two dark brown spots ; vitreous spot triangular, not 

 large, concave on the inner side in the fore wings, interrupting the 

 pale orange band ; near the base a white band, which is bordered 

 with brown on the outer side, and in the fore wings forms an acute 

 angle, which is contiguous to the vitreous spot. Hind wings with 

 a submarginal row of elongated whitish -bordered brown spots. 

 Length of the body 1 1 lines ; of the wings 50 lines. 



c. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



