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CATALOGUE OF 



4. Dirphia Orasta. 





Fcem. Cervina; alee cinerece ; anticce basi fasciaque latissima 

 pallidioribus, plagaque trigona discali apiceque nigricantibus ; 

 posticce obscur lores. 



Phalasna-Bombyx Orasia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 219, pi. 395, f. D. 

 Hylesia Orasia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 186, 1921. 



Female. Fawn-colour. Wings gray. Fore wings paler at the 

 base, and with a very broad paler band, which includes a large 

 blackish triangular patch, the latter attenuated towards the interior 

 border; tips blackish. Hind wings rather darker than the fore 

 wing's. 



S 



unnam. 



5. Dirphia Polybia. 

 Cervina ; aim anticce fuscce, basi alba ; posticce rufce, apud apices 

 fuscce. ^ Mas. — Alee anticce plagis duabus maximis rufis ex 

 parte nigro marginatis, striga subpurpurea, litura discali rufa, 

 maculaque postica trigona alba. 1? aim.— Alee anticce litura 

 discali ferruginea elongata, fascia perobliqua nigra, macula 

 postica alba elongata. 



Phalaena Attacus Polybia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 154, pi. 369, 

 f. A, B. r 



Male and female. Fawn-colour. Fore wings brown, white at 

 the base. Hind wings red, brown along the border about the tips. 

 Male.— Fore wings with two large red spaces mostly bordered with 

 black, one near the base, the other towards the exterior border and 

 joining the first on the interior border, and with its black border ex- 

 tending beyond it to a little in front of the tip of the wing ; a lilac 

 streak in front along the above black line, a transverse red discai 

 spot, and a white triangular spot near the interior border, enclosed 

 on two sides by the black line. Female. —Fore wings without red ; 

 discai spot ferruginous, much elongated ; a very oblique black band, 

 adjoining towards the interior border the hind white spot, which is 

 much more elongated than in the male; tips lilac. 

 Surinam. 



