LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1213 



Male. Fawn-colour. Thorax with a white hand in front. 

 Abdomen testaceous. Wings with the vitreous band bordered with 

 black on the inner side and with pale red on the outer side ; beyond 

 the latter there is a broad luteous black and lilac-powdered band ; 

 exterior border testaceous. Fore wings gray along the costa, behind 

 which towards the base the whitish band forms a slightly acute 

 angle, whose fore side is bordered outwards with black ; near each 

 tip a large lilac spot, which is accompanied on the outer side by a 

 rosy-red spot in front, and by a black spot behind ; beyond these 

 two spots there is a pale testaceous streak, and along the rest of the 

 exterior border are four pairs of pale testaceous spots whose outer 

 borders are tawny. Hind wings with the white band towards the 

 base bordered with black on the outward side ; a row of oblong 

 black spots along the exterior border; these spots successively 

 decrease in size hindward, and are bounded on the outer side by a 

 slender brown band. Length of the body 11 — 12 lines; of the 

 wings 54 — 60 lines. 



a. Santa Fe de Bogota. From Mr. Isaacson's collection. 



Group 8. 



Antennae thorace breviores. Alae amplae, macula magna vitrea 

 fasciaque semihyalina ; anticae valde falcatae,apud costam convexae, 

 margine exteriore perobliquo valde unduloso, macula vitrea subtri- 

 gona ; posticae valde latiores quam longa?, macula vitrea ovata 

 majore. 



Antennae shorter than the thorax. Abdomen extending to 

 more than half the breadth of the hind wings. Wings ample ; eaclu 

 with a large vitreous spot, and with a semihyaline band which ex- 

 tends from two-thirds of the length of the costa to two-thirds of the 

 interior border of the hind wings ; exterior border testaceous, with a 

 slender tawny band. Fore wings convex in front, much hooked at 

 the tips, deeply undulating and very oblique along the exterior bor- 

 der ; vitreous spot irregularly triangular ; its fore sides and its fore 

 angle rounded. Hind wings very much broader than long, very 

 much broader than the fore wings ; vitreous spot oval, larger than 

 that of the fore wings. 



