﻿LEPTDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1629 



from the base to the tips. Wings with a greenish tinge ; lines 

 denticulated and undulating, somewhat darker than the ground- 

 colour ; marginal festoon black ; under side reddish ; veins red ; 

 lines mostly macular and marked with white, as are also the cellular 

 lunules. Fore wings hardly subfalcate; orbicular and reniform 

 marks with dark borders ; the former somewhat small ; the latter 

 narrow ; contracted in the middle. Hind wings with a black spot 

 by the interior border beyond the middle. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



9. Plaxia in genua. 



Mas. Ferrugineo-fusca, vix cinerascens ; caput et thorax oh- 

 scuriora ; alee linea exteriore recta ohliqua obscuriore cano 

 extus marginata costam versus retracta, linea submarginali 

 e guttis nigris, linea marginali tenui nigra denticulata; 

 anticce suhfalcatce^ sat angustce, margine exteriore valde con- 

 vexo, linea basali denticulata, linea media nigricante non 

 obliqua valde diffusa et indistincta, orbiculari parva alba 

 subtus nigricante, reniformi subobsoleta subtus testaceo margi- 

 nata, 



Male, Ferruginous-brown, hardly tinged with cinereous. 

 Head and thorax in front of a somewhat deeper hue. Wings with 

 a straight oblique darker exterior line having a hoary outward 

 border and retracted towards the costa ; submarginal line indicated 

 by small black dots ; marginal line slender, black, denticulated ; 

 under side more brown, with the exterior line testaceous, somewhat 

 intermpted or less straight. Fore wings subfalcate, rather rarrow; 

 exterior border very convex; basal half line denticulated, like the 

 exterior one in hue ; middle line blackish, upright, very diffuse and 

 indistinct; orbicular mark small, whitish, blackish beneath; reni- 

 form almost obsolete above, with a testaceous border beneath. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



u. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



10. Plaxia falcigiira. 



Fcem. CinereO'fusca ; palpi nigri ; alee cervino sordido subtincta>^ 

 lineis nigris undulatis denticulatis, lineis media et submar- 



7 B 



