1356 CATALOGUE OF 



13. DlRPHIA RUSTICA. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; alee basi obscuriores, apud cilias nigricantes, 

 fascia obliqua angusta subundulosa nigricante, fasciaque exte- 

 riore obscure ferruginea. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Attacus rustica, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 30, pi. 305, 



f. E. 

 Phricodia rustica, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 187, 1924. 



Male. Ferruginous. Wings a little darker towards the base, 

 blackish along the cilia?. Fore wings a little darker along the 

 costa, with an oblique slender slightly undulating blackish band 

 beyond the middle ; a dark ferruginons band between the black 

 band and the exterior border. 



Surinam. 



Group 6. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum. Palpi caput non superantes. An- 

 tennae subsetosae, vix serratae, thorace non longiores. Alas longius- 

 culae, vix latae ; anticae subacuminatae, apud costam vix convexae, 

 margine exteriore recto sat obliquo ; posticae abdomen non su- 

 perantes. 



Female. Body stout. Palpi very short, not extending as far 

 as the head. Antennae minutely setose, hardly serrated, as long as 

 the thorax. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Wings 

 rather long, hardly broad. Fore wings hardly convex in front, 

 slightly acuminated at the tips ; exterior border straight, rather ob- 

 lique ; second inferior vein full twice further from the third than 

 from the first. 



14. DlRPHIA NUBILA. 



Fcem. Fusca ; abdomen fulvum; alec anticce fascia angusta ob- 

 liqua bene determinata obscuriore, fasciisque duabus diffusis 

 pallidioribus, una media plagam includente, altera exteriore ; 

 posticm fascia arcuata subundulosa exteriore obscure fusca. 



Female. Brown. Abdomen tawny. Fore wings with a nar- 

 row straight oblique well-defined dark brown band, which extends 

 from beyond five-sixths of the length of the costa to much beyond 

 half the length of the interior border, and with two diffuse whitish 

 brown bands, which are partly bordered with darker brown ; one 

 broad, discal, including a lar^e brown spot ; the other narrow, ex- 

 terior, and undulating. Hind wings with a brown discal ringlet, 



