﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1819 



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Brujas despecta. 



Fa3m. Pallide cervina, subtus testacea ; caput et thorax anticus 

 nigrO'fusca ; alee fascia media incompleta pallidiore, lineis 

 transversis undulatis aut denticulatis nigro-fuscis, guttis 

 submarginalihus nigris ; anticce subfalcata, fascia submargl- 

 nali € maculis duabus obscure fuscis, una subcosfali^ altera 

 apud angulum interiorem ; posticce fascia submarginali 

 integra. 



Female. Pale fawn-colour, more testaceous beneath. Third 



joint of the palpi blackish and slightly widening towards the tip. 



^Head and fore part of the thorax blackish brown. Wings with a 



imiddle incomplete paler band, with transverse undulating or denti- 



''culated blackish brown lines, and with a row of submarginal black 



dots. Fore wings slightly falcate, with the submarginal band 



represented by two dark brown spots, one subcostal, the other near 



the interior angle. Hind wings with submarginal band brown, 



.slight, complete. Winp:s beneath with the bands indistinct or 



1 nearly obsolete, with the exception of a dark brown oblique middle 



i line. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



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Letis discopalina. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; thorax nigro conspersus ; abdomen Ion- 

 gum, attenuatum, fasciculo apicali compresso ; ala nigro sub- 

 conspersa, lineis pallidis obliquis undulatis fusco marginalis, 

 fimbria inter lineaia; anticce plaga oblonga maxima opalina, 

 macula subapicali purpurea ; posticce siriga apud angulum 

 interiorem e maculis quatuor nigris. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Antennae crenulate. Thorax 

 speckled with black. Abdomen long and tapering ; apical tuft 

 long and compressed. Wings slightly speckled with black ; lines 

 pale, oblique, irregular, undulating, bordered with brown ; margi- 

 nal points black, elongated ; fringe interlined. Fore wings with a 

 very large elongated opaline patch, which includes the blackish 

 bordered orbicular and reniform marks ; reniform narrow, irre- 

 gular; a purple subapical spot adjoining the opaline patch ; costal 

 subapical points whitish. Hind wings with a streak by the interior 



