LEP1D0PTERA HETEROCEEA. 1365 



dots along tlie costa from before one-fourth to beyond three-fourths 

 of the length ; a blackish mark at one-third of the length of the 

 costa, another near the tip, and a third near the middle of the ex- 

 terior border : a much larger irregular blackish mark, changing to 

 greenish brown by the middle of the interior border, and extending 

 thence to the middle, where it is accompanied by two small black 

 marks ; under side pale purplish, brownish in front, and with two 

 oblique brownish bands beyond two-thirds of the length, the inner 

 one darker and much more slender than the outer one, from which 

 it is divided by a slender purple band ; the outer brown band 

 is accompanied towards the exterior border by an imperfect zigzag 

 darker brown band. Hind wings rosy, greenish brown on more 

 than one-third of the apical part, and with a greenish brown middle 

 band, which contains a large black mark ; fringe whitish, with 

 brown spots ; under side nearly as in the fore wings. Length of 

 the body 16 lines; of the wings 42 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In the collections of Mr. Fry and of Mr. Saunders. 



26. DlRPHIA ROSACORDIS. 



Mas. Fusca ; antenna testacea ; thorax postice roseus ; abdomen 

 supra nigrum rufo-albo fasciatum ; tarsi rufi ; alee anticce 

 fasciis duabus subpurpureis unaque fusca guttisque duabus 

 luteis, subtiis fusca fasciis duabus subpurpureis maculaque 

 discali nigra luteo marginata ; postica subpurpurea, ban ro- 

 sea, fasciis duabus maculisque exterioribus fuscis, sub tus fas- 

 ciis tribus fuscis maculaque discali nigra luteo cincta. 



Male. Structure of D. multicolor, Antennae as long as the 

 thorax. Fore wings slightly oblique along the exterior border. 

 Brown. Antennae testaceous. Hind part of the thorax rosy. Ab- 

 domen above black, with slender reddish-white bands. Tarsi red. 

 Fore wings with three pale purple bands ; the first at one-third of 

 the length; the second at two-thirds and accompanied on its outer 

 side by a darker brown band; the third marginal and diffuse and 

 including a large brown spot ; two luteous dots in a trans\erse line 

 on the disk ; under side brown, with three pale purple hands beyond 

 the middle, and with a transverse luteous discal mark, whose disk is 

 black. Hind wings purplish, rosy towards the base, and with two 

 brown bands ; a row of darker brown spots along the exterior bor- 

 der ; under side pale purple, with three brown bands, with brown 

 spots along the border, and with a transverse black luteous-bordeied 

 discal mark. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 

 ; Kio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



