LEPIDOPTERA HETEItOCERA. 917 



64. Plusta hamjfera. 



Cervina ; thorax lineis transversis canis ; abdomen fusco -cinereum ; 

 alee anticcB glaucescentes, fasciis duabus latis indeterminatis 

 auratis cupreo variis, litura discali pallide aurata micante e 

 U gultam auream includente guttaque subrotunda, orbiculari 

 et reniformi indistinctis, lineis duabus basalibus subauratis, 

 lunulis marginalibus fuscis, gutta media ciliari nigra; pos~ 

 ticce ceneo-fuscce, ciliis canis fusco guttatis. 



Fawn-colour. Lappets and crests of the thorax with hoary 

 horders. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Fore wings glaucous, 

 with two broad very irregular brightly gilded bands, which are 

 varied with cupreous ; first band containing the discal mark, which 

 is pale gilded and brilliant, and consists of two parts, the one 

 U-shaped and containing a gilded dot, the other nearly round, orbi- 

 cular and reniform spots indistinct ; a row of brown marginal lunules, 

 and some corresponding pale brown lunules on the ciliae, which 

 have a black dot in the middle ; two pale gilded transverse lines 

 near the base. Hind wings aeneous-brown, with hoary ciliae, on 

 which there is a row of elongated brown dots. Length of the body 

 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



<i— c. San tavern. From Mr. Bates' collection. 

 (/. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



65. Plus i a admonens. 



Foem. Ferrugineo-cinerea ; thorax antice ochraceus ; abdomen 

 sordide testaceum ; alee antica? subpurpurascentes, extus sub- 

 aurata?, maculis anticis plagaque postica magna subquadrata 

 ex parte argenteo marginata cupreo-fuscis, linea exteriore un- 

 dulata nigricante, linea submarginali fusca undulata, lineis 

 duabus basalibus pallidis, reniformi ex parte argenteo margi- 

 nata, figura discali e gutta elliptica lituraque ?-formi argen- 

 teis ; postica pallida?, lunulis ciliari bus fuscis, margine la to 

 arneo -fusco. 



Female. Ferruginous-cinereous. Third joint of the palpi 

 nearly half the length of the second. Thorax orange in front. 

 Abdomen dingy testaceous. Fore wings somewhat purplish, 

 slightly gilded exteriorly, with some cupreous-brown spots in front, 

 and with a large hindwaid subquadrate patch of the same hue with 

 its border partly silvery ; a transverse undulating blackish line ex- 

 tends along the outer side of the patch, and at half the distance 



