1238 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Brownish fawn-colour, much paler beneath. Antennae 

 pale lemon-colour. Abdomen whitish testaceous. Thorax in front 

 and costa of the fore wings lilac ; a brown band across the costa 

 beyond two-thirds of the length. Wings with a vitreous spot of 

 moderate size, irregularly pentagonal, bordered with brown and 

 luteous ; both margins very narrow; two lilac bands; one extend- 

 ing from near the tips of the fore wings to a little beyond one-third 

 of the breadth of the hind wings ; the other exterior, irregular and 

 undulating, double in the hind wings, where its inner division is 

 accompanied by a row of blackish dots. Fore wings with two large 

 lilac blotches between the base and the vitreous spot, and with a 

 whitish apical streak ; vitreous spot rather larger than that of the 

 hind wings. Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 54 lines. 



Brazil. 



3. COPAXA EXPANDENS. 



Mas. Luteo-jlava ; caput antice fulvum ; antenna testacece ; tho- 

 rax antice cinereus ; tibice tarsique supra rufescentia ; alee 

 fascia una fusca alteraque lutea ; anticce fusco bivittatce et 

 bifasciatce, maculisque tribu? vitreis fusco cinctis ; posticce 

 fascia angulosa fusca maculaque una vitrea. 



Male. Luteous-yellow. Head tawny in front. Antennae tes- 

 taceous. Thorax in front and costa of the fore wings cinereous. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond half the breadth of the hind wings. 

 Tibia? and tarsi reddish above. Wings with a brown band, which 

 extends from near the tips of the fore wings to rather beyond one- 

 third of the breadth of the hind wings, and with an indistinct 

 luteous band, which crosses the vitreous spots and traverses the 

 brown band very obliquely. Fore wings with two oblique brown 

 stripes, the hind one diffuse exteriorly, and with two slender undu- 

 lating brown bands, one near the base, the other exterior and much 

 more oblique ; three small vitreous spots with brown ringlets placed 

 transversely, the hindmost traversed by the veinlet which traverses 

 the discal areolet. Hind wings with one small vitreous spot, with 

 a slender pale brown zigzag band, whose inner angles have dark 

 brown spots, and with a row of exterior curved pale brown streaks. 

 Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 52 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collecion. 



