﻿LEPIDOPTEHA HETEIIOCERA. 1267 



Male. Ferruginous-brown, pale brown beneath. Palpi 

 blackish beneath; third joint whitish at the base. Antenna? 

 distinctly ciliated. Abdomen with blackish dots. Wrings speckled 

 with black, with the usual transverse undulating blackish lines ; 

 middle line black, more distinct than the others ; sul)inarginal 

 band cinereous-black, incomplete and partly dilated ; submar^inal * 

 lunules black, distinct, widely separated, with pale exterior borders ; 

 marginal lunules much like the submarginal. Fore wings with the 

 orbicular spot blackish, round, very small; reniform indistinct, with 

 an interrupted transverse white exterior mark. Hind wings much 

 more denticulated than the fore wings. Length of ihe body 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



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



Var. Obscurior, paullo major ; alcB anticce ni(/ricantes, playa 

 ohliqaa basali, 2(i apud angulum inleriorem Saque minore 

 marginali cervinis, iineis transvenis nigris ex parte cervino 

 marginatis ; posticce plaga postica nigricante, 



Var, Male, Darker, a little larger. Fore wings blackish, 

 with an oblique fawn-coloured patch near the base, another patch 

 by the interior angle, and a third and smaller one by the middle of 

 the exterior border ; transverse black lines partly bordered with fawn- 

 colour. Hind wings with a large blackish hindward patch. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



South America. 



A. Alae posticae basi non glaucescentes. 

 A. Abdomen non albido signatum. 



A. Alae rufescentes. - - - - marmorides. Cram, 



B. Ala) non rufescentes. 



a. Alae anlicae fascia latissima. - - iraplens, Walk, 



h. Alae anticse fascia nulla lata, 

 i. Alae anticae villa lestacea. 



* Alae anticee striga costali alba. - occidua, Linn. 

 ** Alae anticae striga nulla alba. 



f Alae anticae vitta brevi tenui testacea. 



Herilia, Cram. 

 tf Alae anticae vitta lata subobliqua testacea. 



vitlifera, Walk. 

 ii. Alae anticae vitta nulla testacea. 



