LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1375 



6. Eacles Phoronea. 



Mas et foem. Ferrugineo-rufa ; caput flavo bimaculatum ; tho- 

 racis latera flava aut lutea ; abdomen flavo macidatum, 

 lateribus flavis rufo maculatis ; alee fascia anyusta exterion 

 undulosa flavescente ; anticce macula basali flava, plaga dis- 

 cali diffusa interrupta, macula unica postica fasciaque exte- 

 riore obliqua e maculis luteis ; postica basi et apud costarn 

 flavce aut lutece. 



jPhalaena Attacus Phoronea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 77, 78, pi. 239, 



f. A— C. 

 ; Citheronia Phoronea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. {Phalcence Sphingoides 



Echidna Communiformes), 151, 1601. 



Male and female. Ferruginous-red. Head with a yellow spot 

 -on each side by the base of the antenna. Antennae tawny. Thorax 

 mostly yellow or luteous on each side. Abdomen with yellow bands ; 

 sides yellow, with a row of reddish spots. Wings with an undula- 

 ting slender yellow band near the exterior border. Fore wings with 

 a yellow spot at the base, with a large diffuse and interrupted 

 luteous discal patch, with a luteous spot near the interior border, 

 and with an exterior oblique band of luteous spots, of which the 

 largest are by the costa ; second inferior vein full twice further from 

 the third than from the first. Hind wings mostly yellow or luteous 

 at the base and along the adjoining part of the costa, and with the 

 pale hue still more prevalent on the under side. Length of the body 

 20 lines ; of the wings 46 — 64 lines. 



a, b. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



7. Eacles cacicus. 



Foem. Luteo-flavia ; abdomen fasciis dorsalibus maculisque 

 lateralibus rufescentibus ; alee cinereo-fuscce, venis fasciaque 

 exteriore angusta angulosa rufescentibus ; antica macula 

 basali fasciaque lata antice repanda luteis, hac fasciam 

 cinereo-fuscam interruptam includente ; postica luteo subfas- 

 cial. 

 Cerocampa cacicus, Boisd., MSS. 



Female. Luteous-yellow. Antennae tawny. Abdomen ex- 

 tending a little beyond the hind wings, with broad reddish dorsal 

 bands and with two lateral rows of reddish spots. Wings grayish 



