﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1591 



thorax slightly darker. Wings with the exterior line blackish 

 brown, straight, oblique, distinct, with a slender and concise whitish 

 outer border ; submarginal line blackish, undulating, very indistinct 

 in the fore wings and quite obsolete in the hind wings, but dis- 

 tinguished by black points. Fore wings having the interior line 

 slightly curved, with a whitish inner border, deeply undulating in 

 front; middle line almost obsolete, but forming an oblique black 

 streak between the reniform mark and the costa ; orbicular mark 

 whitish, with a black border ; reniform with more or less of the disk 

 blackish or black, and with a more or less interrupted black border. 

 Hind wings with a deep black discal dot. Length of the body 

 5^ — 6 lines ; of the wings 15 — 16 lines. 



a — b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



7. Ephyeodes comprimens. 



Mas. Pallide cervina, nigro conspersa ; ales extus pallidiores, 

 linea exteriore distincta recta obliqva ferruginea extus testaceo 

 marginata^ guttis contiguis nigricantihus^ linea media tiigri- 

 cante valde diffusa^ linea suhmarginali e guttis diffusis nigri- 

 cantibus, punctis marginalibus nigris nigricante nebulosis ; 

 anticce linea interiore testacea subarcuata nigro diffuse mar- 

 ginata antice angulata, orbiculari alba punctiformi nigro late 

 9narginata, reniformi nigra. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour, minutely speckled with black, very 

 pale beneath. Wings paler exteriorly, with a distinct straight 

 oblique ferruginous exterior line, which has a testaceous outer 

 border, the latter being accompanied by irregular blackish dots ; 

 middle line blackish, of the usual form, very diffuse, most distinct 

 in the fore wings ; submarginal line formed by blackish difi'use dots, 

 which are partly connected in the fore wings ; marginal points black, 

 on a blackish ground, which is most extensive in the fore wings. 

 Fore wings with the interior line testaceous, slightly curved, ir- 

 regularly and diffusedly bordered with black, angular in front; 

 orbicular mark forming a minute white point with a broad black 

 border; reniform black, forming part of the middle line, which is 

 rather broad and distinct. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



o. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



