﻿1570 CATALOGUE OF 



17. ThERMESIA COSTALIS. 



Mas. Cinerea ; caput et thorax anticns ferrugineo-fusca ; palpi, 

 pedes et pectus antics rufa ; palporum articulus ^us 2i dimidio 

 non longior ; al^e ferrugineo iinctce, purpurea suhsuffusce, 

 linea ohliqua suhrecta nigricante, lituris nehulosis nigri' 

 cantibus punctisque nigris alho notatis nonnu/.lis exterioribus^ 

 linea marginali nigricante, fimbria rvfescente sat angusta ; 

 anticce striga costali interiore lata nigricante, cosia rufa, 

 linea interiore nigra subrecta vix obliqua, linea media nebu- 

 losa nigricanie subobsoleta, striga costali subapicali nigricanie, 

 orbiculari punctiformi nigricante marginata, reniformi 

 magna nigricante marginato. 



Male, Cinereous. Head and fore part of the tborax fer- 

 ruginous-brown. Palpi, legs and fore part of the pectus mostly 

 red. Third joint of the palpi about half the length of the second. 

 Wings with a ferruginous tinge and slightly suffused with purple ; 

 a blackish almost straight line extending from the tips of the fore 

 wings to beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings; 

 some exterior blackish nebulous marks, accompanied by some black 

 white-marked points ; marginal festoon blackish ; fringe reddish, 

 rather narrow. Fore wings with a broad blackish streak along the 

 basal part of the costa, which is red ; interior line black, almost 

 straight, very slightly oblique; middle line nebulous, blackish, 

 almost obsolete; a curved blackish streak extending from the costa 

 to near the tip of the common line ; orbicular mark punctiform, 

 with a blackish border ; reniform large, with a slender blackish 

 slightly denticulated border. Length of the body 7 lines; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a, Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



18. Thermesia tinctifeea. 



Foem. Saturate rxifescens, subglaucescens, subtus fusees cente-^ 

 cinerea ; thorax antice subferrugineus ; palporum articulus 

 Sus 2i dimidio non longior; alee linea testacea subrecta 

 obliqua intus ferrugineo margin ata apud costam obsoleta, 

 punctis marginalibus testaceis nigricante notatis, linea sub- 

 marginali cinerea denliculata subobsoleta, linea marginali 

 tenuissima, fimbria obscure ci^ierea ; anticce subfalcatce, linea 

 interiore undulata testacea ferrugineo extus marginata, orbi^ 

 culari nigra purtctiformi, reniformi cinerea angusta nigro 

 marginata. 



