﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1853 



Female, Dark brown, brownish cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with a testaceous black-marked frinjre. Fore wings wiih a purplish 

 tinge, partly fawn-colour; lines almost obsolete, except the exterior 

 one, which is black, oblique and irregularly denticulated ; a row of 

 black submari;inal streaks ; uiarijinal lunulas black, testaceous on 

 the outer side; orbicular and reniform marks very indistinct. Hind 

 wings aeneous-brown. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



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Genus SETIDA. 



|( Mas, Corpus vix robustnm. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi 

 longi, ascendentes ; ariiculus 3us linearis, 2o paiillo brevior. An- 

 tennae simplices, graciles, corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen 

 suhlanceolatum, alas posticas non superans. Pedes subpilosi ; tibiae 

 posiicae calcaribus lonj^is. Alae integrae; anticte apud cosiam rectae, 

 apice subrotundatae, margine exteiiore subconvexo subobliquo. 



! Male, Body hardly stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 long, ascendiog; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, a little 

 shorter than the second. x\ntennae simple, slender, more than half 

 the length of the body. Abdomen somewhat lanceolate, not ex- 

 tending beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately stout, slightly 

 pilose ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings eutire, moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, soinevvhat rounded at 

 the tips, slightly convex and oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Setida quadrisignata. 



i Mas et foem. Pallide cervina^ nigro compersa; alee lineis nigris 

 undalatis, linea subniarginali magis determinata subrecta, 

 macula submarginali lunulisque maryinalibus nigris^ his pal- 



1 lido notatis ; anticce maculis costalibus nigris, orbiculari et 



reniformi subobsoletis. 



Male and female. Pale fawn-colour, with black speckles, 

 I which are most numerous on the thorax. Wings with the lines 

 black, undulatiuix and without speckles about their borders; sub- 

 margiual line u)ore distinct than the others, nearly straight, with a 

 black spot on each wing between it and the middle of the exterior 



