LEPIDOPTERA HETEKOCERA. 



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2. Dirphia Calchas. 

 Mas. Ferrugineo-rufa ; caput, palpi et thorax ex parte fusco 

 hirta ; antenna testacece ; abdomen fa sciis dorsalibus nxgris ; 

 tibiae tarsique supra fusca ; alee anticce obscure cervince, bast 

 fasciaque cinereis, macula discali nigro- fusca, alteraque antica 

 pallide fusca fasciaque obliqua albida; posticce fasciis dua- 

 bus fuscis maculaque discali nigricante. 

 ^halama-Bombyx Attacus Calchas, Cram. Pap. ExoL iv. 25, pi. 

 303, f. A. 



In Cramer's figure the four wings are alike in colour, and the 

 >ands of the fore wings are blackish. 



Male. Ferruginous-red. Head, palpi and thorax partly 

 dothed with brown hairs. Antennae testaceous. Abdomen with 

 idack dorsal bands. Tibia? and tarsi brown above. Fore wings dull 

 awn-colour, grayish, with some whitish hairs at the base, and with 

 in indistinct exterior grayish undulating band ; a transverse oblong 

 dackish brown pale-bordered discal spot, in front of which there is 

 i large pale brown spot which extends to the costa ; under side like 

 hat of the hind wings paler, and with an oblique whitish band. 

 Rind wines above towards the exterior border fawn-colour, with two 

 >rown exterior bands : a blackish discal spot. Length of the body 

 15 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



Female. Like the male, but without the costal brown spot. 

 Length of the body 16—18 lines ; of the wings 45-50 lines. 

 a. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 

 b— d. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



3. Dirphia Avia. 

 Foem. Fusca; antenna fulvce ; abdomen rufo-luteum, nigro 

 fasciatum ; alee nigro-cinercce ; anticce margine extenore fas- 

 ciisque duabus pallidioribus ; posticce fasciis tribus extenon- 

 bus obscurioribus,basiferruginece. ^ 



Phalama-Bombyx Attacus Avia, Cram. Pap. ExoL iv. 36, pi. <30/, 



f. A. 

 jPhricodia Avia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 187, 1923. 



Female. Brown. Antennae tawny. Abdomen reddish luteous, 

 with black bands. Wings blackish gray. Fore wings paler along 

 the exterior border, and with two paler bands which converge 

 towards the interior border, the space between them rather more 

 brown than the wings elsewhere. Hind wings ferruginous towards 

 the base, with three exterior dark bands. 

 Surinam. 



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