﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1625 



.which are pointed with white ; marj^inal festoon black ; fringe with 

 two paler lines ; interior line blackish, indistinct, undulating and 

 denticulated. Fore wings with the basal half line like the interior 

 line; orbicular mark forming a deep black dot; reniform large, 

 white, incompletely bordered with black, excavated on the outer 

 side. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Var. Foem. Cinereo-fusca^ subrufescens^ subtun lurido-fusca ; 

 palporum articulus 3ms 2i dimidlo valde longior ; alee nigro 

 suhcoiisperscB^ linea subrecta nigricante, spatio exteriore sub- 

 obscuriore^ linea submarginali e punctis nonnullis nigrican- 

 tibus pallido notatis^ punctis marginalibus nigris, linea mar- 

 ginali tenni ; anticcB striga subapicali subarcuata, orbiculari 

 parva nigricante, reniformi maxima apud medium contracta 

 postice alba ; posticce punctis submarginalib^s albis subtus con- 

 spicuis. 



Female. Cinereous-brown, with a reddish tinge, more lurid- 

 brown beneath. Second joint of the palpi with a long apical tuft 

 above ; third pubescent, lanceolate, hardly more slender than the 

 second, and much more than half its length. Wings minutely 

 speckled with black, slightly darker beyond a blackish nearly 

 straight line, wbich extends from beyond the middle of the interior 

 border of the hind wings to the tips of the fore wings; several irre- 

 gular blackish pale-marked points indicating the submarginal line ; 

 marginal points black ; marginal festoon very slight. Fore wings 

 with a slightly curved subapical streak proceeding from the costa to 

 the common line ; orbicular mark small, blackish ; reniform very 

 large, contracted in the middle, its hind part white ; some almost 

 obsolete indications of the usual lines. Hind wings beneath with 

 white submarginal points, which are less distinctly apparent in the 

 fore wings. 



b. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



South America. 



A. AlsB anticae plaga nulla. 

 A. AlsEj anticae vix falcalae. 

 A. Alee linea recta. 



a. AlcE fimbria angusta. - - - Macarea, Cram. 



