LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1285 



yhich are partly reddish, partly fawn-coloured, by the slender testa- 

 ;eous band, and by the broad bluish band along the exterior border. 

 The hind wings, with the exception of the ocellus and the con- 

 iguous band and the fawn-coloured border, are red. 



Surinam. 



6, Hyperchiria illustris. 



Foem. Rufo-cervina ; caput et thorax nigro-fusca; antennae tes- 

 tacece ; alee anticce rufo-fuscce, gutta centrali lineisque duabus 

 ,1 transversis albis, plaga transversa discali fasciisgue duabus 



fuscis, ocello subtus e gutta alba nigro latissime marginato ; 

 posticce ocello fusco pupilla atra albo conspersa et fasciata 

 margine exteriore atro, fasciis Iribus angustis exterioribus , 

 una atra, duabus pallidis. 



L Female. Head and thorax blackish brown. Antenna? tes- 

 ceous. Pectus, abdomen and femora reddish fawn-colour. 

 Tibiae and tarsi brown. Fore wings reddish brown, with an 

 ndistinct purplish tinge between the two slender whitish bands, 

 3f which the interior one is undulating, bordered with brown 

 ilong the inner side, and much less oblique than the exterior 

 'me, which extends from near each tip (where it is slightly undu- 

 lating) to much beyond half the length of the interior border, and is 

 ^ordered with brown on the outer side ; this band is accompanied on 

 :he outer side by an irregular pale brown band, which in front emits 

 i darker brown fork obliquely across the whitish band ; under side 

 reddish fawn-colour, with two darker bands, of which the exterior 

 me is undulating ; border mostly cinereous ; discal spot large, black, 

 transverse, with a white dot in the middle. Hind wings reddish 

 fawn-colour, with three exterior narrow slightly undulating bands; 

 :he first band black, slightly bordered with black on the inner side, 

 accompanied on the outer side by the second, which like the third is 

 somewhat whitish; exterior border slightly cinereous; ocellus pale 

 brown, with a black border and a black centre, the latter sprinkled 

 tvith white and with a white band; underside mostly cinereous, 

 with a white dhcal dot, near which there is a straight brown band. 

 Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 56 lines. 



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



7. Hyperchiria Salmonea. 



Alee anticce fuscce striga atra ; posticce rufce ocello nigro lunula 

 alba. 



2 Y 2 



