1376 CATALOGUE OF 



brown, with reddish veins and with a slender zigzag reddish band 

 near the exterior border. Fore wings with a luteous spot at the 

 base, and a broad luteous band, which is much dilated in front, and 

 includes a grayish brown interrupted band; second inferior vein 

 full six times further from the third than from the first. Hind 

 wings with some traces of a band between two large luteous spots, 

 one on the costa, the other on the interior border. Length of the 

 body 18 lines ; of the wings 52 lines. 



Var. (3. Fore wings with the brown band entire, and quite 

 dividing the luteous one. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by Sir John Liddell. 



8. Eacles pkincipalis. 



Mas et fcern. Rufescens ; caput fiavo bimaculatum ; thorax 

 maculis duabus posticis flams ; alee fasciis duabus obliquis 

 fuscis ex parte albido marginatis, margine exteriore albicantes 

 fasciamque late angulosam rufam includentes ; anticce apud 

 costam albidce, maculis tribus aut duabus vitreis apud fasciam 

 exteriorem fuscam ; posticce basim versus et apud costam pal- 

 lidiores maculaque transversa discali fuscescente. 



Cerocampa principalis, MSS. 



Male and female. Reddish. Antennae tawny. Head with a 

 yellow spot at the base of each antenna. Thorax with two yellow 

 dorsal spots on the hind part. Wings with two oblique brown 

 bands, whose borders are partly whitish ; the latter hue also appears 

 along the exterior border ; first band zigzag ; second straight ; a 

 deeply angular pale red band near the exterior border. Fore wings 

 with a whitish hue along the costa, and with three vitreous spots 

 along the inner side of the exterior brown band ; second inferior 

 vein full four times further from the third than from the first. Hind 

 wings paler towards the base and along the costa, and with a trans- 

 verse brownish discal spot. Length of the body 15 — 18 lines; of 

 the wings 48 — 56 lines. 



Var. 13. Fore wings with three much smaller vitreous spots. 



Var. y. Fore wings with only two small vitreous spots. 



a — c. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 

 d. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



