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second oblique, slightly bordered on the outer side with black, ex- 

 tending from near the tip of the costa to a little before the middle 

 of the interior border ; under side with a very large deep black dis- 

 cal ocellus, whose disk is flecked with white. Hind wings with a 

 slight purplish tinge beyond the ocellus, which is brown, very large, 

 bordered with black and yellow, and has a testaceous disk which 

 contains three deep black partly white-bordered spots, a small one 

 on each side of the large one; under side with a white discal dot. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Group 17. 



Mas. Alae anticae longse, sat angulatae, valde falcata?, apud 

 costam subrectae, apice acuminata?, margine exteriore concavo sat 

 obliquo ; posticae abdomen triente superantes. 



Male. Fore wings long, rather narrow, almost straight along 

 the costa, acuminated and very much falcated at the tips, concave 

 and rather oblique along the costa; second inferior vein twice 

 further from the third than from the first. Hind wings extending 

 for one-third of their breadth beyond the abdomen. 



29. Hyperchiria Janeira. 



Mas. Alee anticce apice acuminata fusco -f err uginece, striga sub- 

 basali interrupta lutescente, ocello fusco luteo annulato, stri- 

 gaque nigra e media marginis interni ad apicem extensa ; 

 posticce supra castaneo-rufce, margine postico fusco ocello magno 

 concolore maculam ovalem nigram includente fulvoque extus 

 annulato. 



Saturnia Janeira, Westio. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. xv. 300. 



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



Group 18. 



Fcem. Alae lat« ; anticae apud costam convexae, apice valde 

 acutae vix falcatae, margine exteriore subconvexo vix obliquo ; pos- 

 ticae abdomen paullo superantes. 



Female. Wings broad. Fore wings convex in front, very 

 acute, but hardly falcated at the tips, very slightly convex and 

 hardly oblique along the exterior border; second inferior vein much 

 further from the third than from the first. 



