LEPIDOPTERA HETEHOCK RA. I .'><>! 



Male. Purplish fawn colour. Head and under side of the 

 body and of the bind wings yellowish white. AntenM tawny. A 



short luteous streak on the hind part of the thorax and on the ad- 

 joining part of the abdomen. Legs white beneath. Forei 



it) with a slender slightly curved blackish hand, which extends from 

 ijiithe base through the disk to the tip ; behind it there are three dif- 

 fused oblique purple bands ; under side sprinkled with pale yellow 

 ^towards the exterior border. Hind wings with whitish cilia*. 

 ^Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



tu. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 



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Genus 34. PH^DRIA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum, pilosum. Palpi porrecti, caput non 

 fsuperantes ; articulus 3us parvus, acuto-conicus. Antenna' sub- 

 pectinatae, thorace breviores, dimidio fere basali sat late pectinate. 

 Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, pilis longifl 

 vestiti ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibns. Ahe 

 sat an gust® ; antieae apud costam rectae, apice vix angulatae, mar- 

 gine exteriore perobliquo. 



Male. Body stout, pilose. Palpi porrect, extending as far ifl 

 the bead; first joint short; third small, acute-conical. Antenna 

 'shorter than the thorax, rather deeply pectinated to nearly half the 

 length, slightly pectinated from thence to the tips. Abdomen ex- 

 tending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout, with long hairs ; hind 

 tibia; with two minute apical spurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore 

 ( wings straight along the costa, hardly angular at the tips, very ob- 

 lique along the exterior border ; first and second inferior veins con- 

 tiguous at n the base; third very remote ; fourth springing from near 

 the base of the wing. 



1. PHzEDRIA moderata. 



^Mas. Nigro-cinerea ; corpus subferrugineum ; antenna pedes*/ iw 

 fulva; aloe antica cano bifasciata, antice nigra notaUc ; poi- 

 ticce cano unifasciatce. 

 Male. Blackish gray. Body slightly ferruginous. Ant 

 and less tawny, the latter with blackish gray hairs Fore wi 

 : blackisb about the tip of the discal areolet and along the adjoining 

 part of the costa ; two oblique hoary bands, the first at three-fonrtlM 

 'of the length of the wing, rather broader and paler than the second, 



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