﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1821 



1. Rhubuna IRRESOLUTA. 



Mas et foera. Ferruginea ; thorax nigra bifasciatus ; palpi nigri^ 

 cinereo conspersi; abdomen subcinereum ; alee anticce nigri- 

 canfe-fusco nebulosce, lineis nigris undulatis et denticulatis, 

 strigis submarginalibus nigris^ reniformi oblongo-snbqvad- 

 rata albido-testacea ; posticce macula apud angulum inte- 

 riorem atra, strigam albam includente. 



Male and female. Ferruginous, cinereous beneath, where the 

 wings have several brown lines and a broad submarginal brown 

 band. Palpi black, speckled with cinereous. Thorax with two 

 (black bands. Abdomen somewhat cinereims. Fore wings mostly 

 "shaded with blackish brown, except towards the exterior border ; 

 jjlines black, undulating and denticulated ; a submarginal row of 

 •short black streaks ; reniform mark oblong-subquadrate, white 

 or testaceous; costal subapical points whitish or testaceous. Hind 

 wings much like the lore wings, but with fewer lines ; a deep black 

 spot by the interior angle intersected by a white streak. Length of 

 ;the body 7 — 9 lines; of the wings 18 — 20 lines. 



\a — c. St. Domingo, From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



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 Spiramia revolvens. 



Mas. — Fusca ; corpus nigricans^ snbtus miniatum ; alcB dimidio 



basali iiigricante-fusco, lineis quatuor exterioribus obscure 



fuscis^ anticce litura discali contorta atro et ex parte albo mar- 



ginata. Fcem. — Testacea, subtus miniata ; caput et thorax 



antice nigricantia ; thorax et abdomen fasciis nigricantibus ; 



al(B lineis septem fuscis. 



Male. — Brown. Body blackish, red-lead-colour beneath and 



at the tip of the abdomen above. Wings blackish brown on the 



basal half, with four exterior dark brown lines. Fore wings with 



the usual contorted discal mark, which is bordered with deep black 



and partly with white. Female. — Testaceous, red-lead-colour 



beneath, where the wings have regular blackish lines. Head and 



fore part of the thorax blackish. Thorax and abdomen with 



blackish bands. Wings with seven brown lines ; first line dilated 



on the fore wings; second and third confused towards the interior 



border of the fore wings and on the hind wings ; fourth incomplete 



7 s 



