LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1295 



Fore win^s reddish in the disk, with three whitish testaceous bands ; 

 first band at one-third of the length, upright, hardly undulating, 

 slightly bordered with brown on both sides ; second and third bor- 

 dered with brown on the outer side ; second forming an acute 

 angle near the costa, extending from five-sixths of the length of the 

 wing to the interior border, which it joins very near the first, very 

 slightly curved ; third slightly undulating, very near the exterior 

 'border ; a transverse dark brown elongated discal spot, with a 

 iwhitish testaceous border ; under side mostly covered with whitish 

 hairs, with a single slender oblique brown band, which joins a brown 

 ispot at the tip of the costa, and with a transverse discal brown spot, 

 which has ? white dot in its middle. Hind wings red, brown for 

 full one-third of the length from the exterior border ; this brown 

 | part has a whitish testaceous fringe, and includes two curved bands 

 of the same colour; a large deep black discal ocellus, with a very 

 I minute white mark in its centre, and with a whitish testaceous bor- 

 der ; under side brownish, thickly sprinkled with white, with two 

 curved brown bands, and with a white discal dot. Length of the 

 body 9 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Group 9. 



Masetfcem. Antennas thoracis longitudine. Alae lata? ; an- 

 ticae non falcatae, apud costam convexae, apice acuminata?, margine 

 exteriore recto parum obliquo. Mas, — Antennarum rami sub- 

 jaequaliter longi. Alae posticae abdomen dimidio superantes. Fcem. 

 — Alae posticae abdomen paullo superantes. 



Male and female. Antennae as long as the thorax. Wings 

 broad. Fore wings angular, but not falcate at the tips, convex in 

 front ; exterior border straight, slightly oblique ; second inferior 

 vein much nearer to the third than to the first. Male. — Antennae 

 with one branch in each pair, much more slender, but very little 

 shorter than the other, which is ciliated. Abdomen extending to 

 half the breadth of the hind wings. Female. — Abdomen extending 

 to five-sixths of the breadth of the hind wings. 



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