﻿1370 CATALOGUE OF 



there is a luteous patch, which is contiguous to a larger fawn- 

 coloured patch, and between the latter and a costal apical fawn- 

 coloured patch there are two undulating fawn-coloured lines, of 

 which the interior one is partly bordered with dark brown. Hind 

 wings dark iawn-colour, with a brown band which widens in front ; 

 under side with a purplish white tinge, and traversed like the fore 

 wings by a lunulate brown line. Length of the body 11 lines; of 

 the wings 28 lines. 



Bogota. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Var, Male. Fawn-colour, with a lilac tinge on the wings 

 beneath. Thorax blackish, with indistinct colours on each side 

 hindward. Hind borders of the abdominal segments pale. Fore 

 wings with a straight oblique testaceous band, which has a dif- 

 fuse reddish border on each side ; this band is interrupted in front 

 by part of a very large irregular black interlined patch, which 

 occupies nearly one-third of the wing ; a whitish iridescent api- 

 cal mark, and a row of black white-marked submarginal points. 

 Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 h — e. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and 

 Lieut. Wood. 



4. Ophisma ablunaris. 



Pallide cervina^ nigro conspersa ; abdomen cervino-cinereum ; alee 

 anticce fasciis tribus et reniformi nigricantibus, fascia la 

 recta^ 2a undulata, 3« denticulata, margine exteriore canes- 

 cente, punctis subniarginalibus nigris ; posticce testacece, fascia 

 ynarginali latissima excavata nigro-fusca. 



Ophisma ablunaris, Guen, NocL iii. 237, 1649. 



Colombia. 



5. Ophisma delunaris. 



O. ablunari 5^m^//^ma; alee obscuriores ; anticce violaceo tinctce, 

 subnitentes, 



Ophisma ablunaris, var. P 



Ophisma delunaris, Guen. NocL iii. 238, 1650. 



