﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1627 



cinereis; anticce costa cinerascente conspersa, lineis dualms 

 vagis undulatis parallelism interiore angulata, orbiculari e 

 anntilo fuscescenie. 



Plaxia hypenoides, Guen. Noct. iii. 387, 1882. 



Cayenne. 



5. Plaxia Toxea. 



Rufescens ; alee linea exteriore e punctis nigris ; anticce gutta ma- 

 culaque discalibus fuscis hyaiinis ; posticce macula discali 

 glaucescente hyalina. 



Phalsena-Noctua Toxea, Cram. Pap, Exot, iv. 133, pi. 358, 

 f, G, H. 



Surinam. 



6. Plaxia obliterans. 



Foem. Rufescentecervina ; caput et thorax anticus obscuriora ; 

 palporum articulus Sus cinereus, lanceolatus, 2i dimidio 

 paullo longior ; abdomen cinerascens ; alee linea recta ferru- 

 ginea cinereo extus marginata costam versus retracta rectan- 

 gulata, linea submarginali e punctis elongatis nigricantibus 

 pallido notatis ; anticce linea interiore obscura pal lido mar- 

 ginata undulata indistincta, costa rufescente, orbiculari alba 



I punctiformi nigro marginata^ reniformi magna nigricante 



' submarginata postice latiore et albido varia. 



Female. Reddish fawn-colour, somewhat paler beneath. 

 Head and fore part of the thorax darker. Third joint of the palpi 

 cinereous, lanceolate, a little more than half the length of the 

 second. Abdomen somewhat cinereous. Wings with a straight 

 ferruginous line, which has a cinereous outer border and extends 

 from two-lhirds of the length of the interior border of the hind 

 wings to the exterior costa of the fore wings, on approaching which 

 ; it is retracted, and forms a right angle ; submarginal line indicated 

 j by elongated blackish pale-marked points. Fore wings with the 

 I interior line dark and bordered with a pale hue, undulating, in- 

 distinct ; costa reddish ; orbicular mark white, punctiform, bordered 

 with black ; reniform large, with an incomplete blackish border, 

 ; broader hindward, where it is mostly whitish, and partly marked 

 I with blackish. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



