588 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Blood-red. Palpi erect, ascending to the vertex; third 

 joint conical, not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae hardly ciliated. Abdomen cinereous, extending very little 

 beyond the hind wings. Fore wings having a white line with a 

 broad glaucous border at two-thirds of the length, beyond which the 

 red hue is paler, and has a cupreous tinge, and contains an irregu- 

 lar whitish line ; orbicular spot luteous, nearly round ; reniform spot 

 distinguished by a luteous dot by its hind border ; some white dots 

 on the apical part of the costa ; exterior border with brown ciliae, 

 not denticulated. Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 6 

 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Group 3. 

 Like the sixth European group. 



69. Hadena subjecta. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; thorax fasciis duabus nigricantibus late 

 interruptis ; abdomen pallide cinereum ; ala> antica lituris 

 costalibus et submarginalibus guttisque marginalibus nigris, 

 fascia media lata diffusa fuscescente lineis duabus nigris an- 

 gulosis inclusa, orbiculari et reniformi subaqualibus nigro ex 

 parte marginatis ; postica? alba, semihyalince, costa margineque 

 interiore testaceis. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Third joint of the palpi minute. 

 Antenna? distinctly ciliated. Thorax with two widely interrupted 

 blackish bands. Abdomen pale cinereous. Fore wings with black 

 costal and submarginal marks, and with a row of black marginal 

 dots; ciliae partly blackish ; a broad diffuse brownish middle band, 

 bordered on each side by an angulose black line ; the other lines 

 almost obsolete ; orbicular and reniform spots with incomplete black 

 borders, the former almost as large as the latter. Hind wings 

 white, semihyaline, testaceous in front and along the interior bor- 

 der. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



