﻿lepiooptera heterocera, 999 



3. Gonitis properans. 



Foem. LuteO'Cervina^ subtus pallida; palpi subareuad ; articu- 

 lus Sus lanceolatus^ 2i dimidio longior ; anlennce subciliatce ; 

 abdomen fuscescente-cervinum ; alee anticce lineis quatuor an- 

 gulosis transversis nigricantibus^ orbiculari et reniformi e 

 gutta maculaque albis nigro marginatis, gutta antica alba, 

 anguli marginalis lateribus subconcavis ; posticce ctneo-fuscce. 



Female. Luteous fawn-colour, pale beneath. Palpi slightly 

 curved ; third joint lanceolate, more than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae very minutely ciliated. Abdomen brownish 

 fawn-colour, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with four zigzag transverse blackish lines ; orbicular spot 

 forming a white blackish bordered dot ; reniform spot small, white, 

 round, with a blackish border: a white dot in front of the reniform ; 

 tips acute ; exterior border forming a slight angle, in front of which 

 it IS slightly concave. Hind wings aeneous-brown. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Var. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Reniform spot trans, 

 versely oblong, rather large. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



4. Gonitis albitacta. 



Rufescente-cervina, subtus pallide cinerea; palporum articulus Sus 

 lanceolatus, gracilis ^ 2i dimidio paullo longior ; abdomen cer- 

 vinum ; alcB anticfS lineis tribus transversis subobliquis nigri- 

 cantibus albido marginatis^ la 2aque subrectis, 3a undulata 

 fiexa abbreviata, linea submarginati undulata, valde indis- 

 tincta, orbiculari e gutta alba, reniformi subobsoleta, margine 

 exteriore antice concavo postice subdenticulato, ciliarum apici- 

 bus ex parte albidis ; posticce cervince. 



Reddish fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Third joint of 

 the palpi lanceolate, slender, a little more than half the length of the 

 second. Abdomen fawn-colour, paler than the thorax. Fore wings 

 with three transverse blackish slightly oblique whitish-bordered 

 lines; first and second almost straight ; third undulating, extending 

 from the custa to half the breadth of the wing, where it is abruptly 



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