LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 1309 



Male. Abdomen not extending near so far as the hind wings. 

 Fore wings rather narrow, convex along the costa, falcate at the 

 tips, with a deep excavation and with two posterior notches on 

 the exterior border, which is very oblique ; no interior angle ; three 

 inferior veins ; second rather near the first at the base ; third remote. 

 Hind wings broad, very convex and much dilated along the costa, 

 which is notched at the tip ; exterior border slightly scalloped. 



35. Hyperchiria Nausica. 



Mas. Cervina ; caput et thorax nigro vitlata ; caput antice 

 et pectus rufa ; antennce fulvce ; abdomen luteum, basi subtus 

 rufum ; tibia anticce tarsique nigricantia ; alee anticce fasciis 

 quatuor angustis perobliquis lituraque discali fuscis, subtus 

 apud costam purpureo-rufa litura discali nigra ; posticce tes- 

 tacets, faseiis duabus posterioribus arcuatis strigaque basali 

 transversa nigris, ocello roseo-nigro marginato, subtus rufes- 

 centes fasciis duabus purpurascentibus exterioribus unaque 

 fuscescente subundulosa media. 



Phalsna-Bornbyx Attacus Nausica, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 97, pi. 

 249, f. D, E. 



Surinam. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Head and thorax with a black stripe. 

 Head red in front. Antennae tawny. Pectus red. Abdomen 

 luteous, red at the base beneath. Fore tibiae and tarsi blackish, 

 tore wings with four slender very oblique brown bands ; first and 

 second bands straight ; third and fourth slightly curved ; a brown 

 transverse discal mark between the first and second bands ; under 

 side purplish, reddish along the costa, with a black discal mark. 

 Hind wings testaceous, with a blackish transverse streak near the 

 pase, with a large rose-coloured black-bordered discal ocellus, and 

 With two curved black posterior bands ; under side reddish, darkest 

 iloug the costa, with a brownish slightly undulating band beyond 

 ;he middle, and with two pale purplish bands nearer the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 30 lines 



t, b. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 *, (/. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



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