LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1287 



8. Htperchiria Egeus. 



Foem. Ferruginea ; abdomen rufo-fulvum ; alee anticce basi alba, 

 strigis tribus subpurpureis, fascia discali angusta recta obliqua 

 cinerea, lineaque exteriore angulosa albida ; postica albidce, 

 basi rufo-fulvcF, fasciis duabus exterioribus nigris, margine 

 exteriore ferrugineo ; ocellus pupilla margineque atris. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus Egeus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 100, pi. 64, 



f. C. 

 Boinbyx Egeus, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. v. 35, 40. 

 Automeris Egea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. {Phalance Sphingoides 



Echidnce Recondentes) 155, 1617. 



Surinam. 



Female. Ferruginous, paler beneath. Antennae tawny. Ab- 

 domen reddish tawny. Fore wings with three slightly purplish short 

 discal bands, the first and the second connected hindward, and, like 

 the third, resting on a more oblique slender straight cinereous band ; 

 a whitish narrow zigzag band near the exterior border ; a whitish 

 transverse streak at the base, and a whitish dot in the disk ; under 

 side with a brown transverse discal spot and two exterior brown 

 bands. Hind wings whitish, pale reddish tawny at the base, ferru- 

 ginous along the exterior border, with two black bands, the exterior 

 one broad, the interior one narrow and partly connected with the 

 ocellus, which is deep black, with a whitish central ringlet ; under 

 side ferruginous, with a white discal dot and with two brown bands, 

 of which the interior one is contiguous to the dot. Length of the 

 body 20 lines ; of the wings 54 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



Group 3. 



Foem. Antennae thorace paullo longiores. Alae longiusculae 

 vix latae ; anticae acuminata? vix falcatae, apud costam subconvexae, 

 margine exteriore perobliquo subrecto ; posticae abdomen triente 

 superantes. 



Female. Antennae a little longer than the thorax. Abdomen 

 extending to two-thirds of the breadth of the hind wings. Wings 

 rather long, hardly broad. Fore wings acutely angular, but hardly 

 falcate at the tips, slightly convex in front, almost straight and very 

 oblique along the exterior border ; second inferior vein much fur- 

 ther from the third than from the first. 



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