LEPIDOPTERA H2TEROCERA. 1339 



Male. Brown, flecked with black. Head, antenna?, fore part 

 )f the thorax and fore wings about the base and along the costa 

 ■awn-colour. Wings with a slender very oblique blackish band, 

 *vhich is like that of M, despecta in form and place, and is accom- 

 panied on its outer side by a pale testaceous band. Fore wings with 

 "i blackish fawn-colour bordered ocellus. 



The male much resembles the female, but may be distin- 

 guished by its smaller size, its more falcate and acuminated fore 

 'wings and their more oblique exterior border ; its hind wings also 

 form a much smaller angle between their exterior and interior bor- 

 ders. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Var. P Male. Whitish testaceous, shining, very minutely 

 flecked with black. Antenna? testaceous. Fore wings testaceous 

 along the costa, with a slightly oblique testaceous streak at one- 

 fourth of the length, and with another extending from near the 

 base of the costa to the small oblique black discal spot ; a brown 

 oblique band at three-fourths of the length, forming a nearly right 

 angle near the tip, to which it emits a blackish branch, and there is 

 also a blackish streak extending from the outer middle of this band 

 to the interior angle ; a very slender blackish streak extends in the 

 disk from near the base towards the above band ; exterior border 

 partly bordered with brown. Hind wings with the brown band, 

 which is slightly curved, and with the blackish streak towards the 

 interior angle. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Fcem. ? Cervina, nigro subconspersa ; alee fascia gracili perob- 

 liqua fusca, extus albido-testacece cervino marginatum. 



Female P Fawn-colour, slightly flecked with black. Wings 

 with a slender very oblique brown band, which extends from a little 

 beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings to a 

 short space from the tips of the fore wings, where it is abruptly re- 

 tracted to the costa ; the wings beyond it are whitish testaceous, 

 with pale fawn-coloured borders. Length of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 20 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



