LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1367 



Group 15. 



Mas. Corpus robustum, dense pilosum. Palpi brevissimi. 

 Antennae late pectinatae, thorace inulto breviores. Abdomen breve, 

 longi-obconicum. Pedes validi ; tarsi dense pilosi. A he latius- 

 culae ; anticse apud costam subrecta?, apice vix angulata?, margine 

 exteriore mediocriter obliquo ; posticae abdomen longe superantes. 



Male. Body stout, thickly pilose. Palpi very short, not ex- 

 tending near so far as the head. Antennae deeply pectinated, much 

 shorter than the thorax. Abdomen short, elougate-obconical, ex- 

 tending to a little beyond half the breadth of the hind wings. Legs 

 stout ; tarsi, like the other parts, thickly pilose. Wings rather 

 broad. Fore wings straight along the costa till near the tips, where 

 they are slightly convex, hardly angular at the tips, moderately ob- 

 lique along the exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; three in- 

 ferior veins ; second much further from the third than from the 

 first. 



28. DlRPHIA PURPURASCENS. 



Mas. Lutea ; antenna flava ; thoracis discus purpurascens ; ab- 

 dominis discus ater ; aim antica purpurascentes, macula 

 transversa discali fusca* fasciis duabus viridescentibus unaque 

 nigricanie ; posticce purpureo-rosea?, fasciis duabus fusces- 

 centibus. 

 Male. Luteous. Antennae yellow. Disk of the thorax pur- 

 plish. Disk of the abdomen deep black. Fore wings purplish, 

 with a blackish band at one-third of the length, with a transverse 

 Drown spot in the disk, with an oblique greenish band a little 

 oeyond the discal spot, and with a diffuse and indistinct paler green 

 mnd nearer the exterior border. Hind wings pale purplish rosy, 

 jvith two indistinct pale brownish bands ; the first near and parallel 

 to the exterior border, the second marginal. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 

 Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



i Group 16. 



Masetfcem. Corpus robustum. Palpi breves, porrecti. An- 

 tennae thorace non longiores. Abdomen alas posticus non superans, 

 apice subf'asciculatum.' Pedes validi, pilosissimi. Alee vix lata;; 

 anticae apud costam subrecta?, apice subacuminatag, margine exte- 

 riore unduloso subobliquo. If as.— Antennae latissime pectmata?. 

 Fcem.-— Antennae mediocriter pectinatae. 



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