﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1531 



undulating dark brown lines, and with black sub marginal points; mar- 

 ginal space mostly cinereous. Fore wings with the interior line 

 double and like those in the middle, as is also the more incomplete 

 submarginal line ; some oblique whitish costal streaks and a white 

 nearly triangular costal subapical patch; reniform mark ferrugi- 

 nous, more or less bordered with white. Wings beneath pale 

 cinereous, with dark brown lines much like those above, but 

 more interrupted. The tints of this species vary from brown to 

 ferruginous, and from lurid-cinereous to hoary. Length of the 

 body 8-— 8i lines; of the wings 21—22 lines. 



Amazon Region. 



a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



Var. Mas. Ferrvginea, subtus cinerea ; palporum articulus Sus 

 subclavatus, 2o non brevior^ pectus albidum ; abdomen sub- 

 cinereo-fuscum ; alee anticce cinereo varies, lineis nigricantibus 

 angulosis, basali et interiore latiuscufis, plaga costali subapi- 

 call subtrigona albido-viridi, punctis costalibus albis, plaga 

 posteriore obscure viridi, reniformi testaceo submarginata , 

 margine exteriore excavato. 



Var. Male, Ferruginous, cinereous beneath. Third joint of 

 the palpi subclavate, full as long as the second. Pectus whitish. 

 Abdomen brown, with a slight cinereous tinge. Fore wings here 

 and there cinereous ; lines blackish, zigzag, irregular, the basal and 

 the interior somewhat broad; a costal subapical whitish green 

 nearly triangular patch, accompanied by white costal points, and 

 having behind it a dark green larger and more irregular patch ; a 

 slight pale green tinge in part of the disk behind the latter ; reni- 

 form mark with an incomplete pale testaceous border; exterior 

 border denticulated, somewhat excavated between the tip and the 

 rounded angle in the middle, behind which it is very oblique. 

 Hind wings in colour much like the fore wings, but without 

 the patches; exterior border forming an almost right angle in 

 the middle, behind which it is denticulated. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



b. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



