LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 947 



Mexico. 



1. GONODONTA TERETIMACULA. 



Fusca ; caput album ; thorax antice fulvus ; abdomen nigrum, 

 apice albo-Jlavum ; ala antica aurato-Jlava?, plaga apud den- 

 tern interiorem spatioque marginali purpurascente-ferrugineis, 

 ilia lineam angulosam includente, tinea submarginali sub- 

 recta ; posticus nigricantes, macula discali indeterminata 

 fulva. 



Gonodonta teretimacula, Guen. Noct. ii. 367, 1211. 



Mexico. Colombia. Guiana. Guadeloupe. 



2. Gonodonta correcta. 



Foem. Nigro-fusca, subtus testacea; caput ferrugineum, albo 

 varium ; palpi ferruginei, intus albi ; thorax chalybeo con- 

 spersus ; abdomen subtus luteum ; alee antica? spadicece, apud 

 viargines purpureo tinctce, fasciis duabus, una basalt, altera 

 exteriore angulosa lineaque aurata conjunctis, macula ocellari 

 apud angulum interiorem aureo nigroque varia eyaneo con- 

 spersa, strigis posticis cyaneis, guttis submarginalibus ferru- 

 ginei s, puncto discali nigro ; postica? lutea, margine la to 

 nigro-cupreo. 



Female. Blackish brown, testaceous beneath. Head pale 

 ferruginous, and marked with white. Palpi ferruginous, white on 

 the inner side. Thorax sprinkled with chalybeous. Abdomen 

 luteous beneath. Fore wiugs chestnut-colour, tinged with purple 

 hindward and along the exterior border; the latter hue interrupted 

 by two bands, the one near the base, the other exterior and zigzag, 

 and accompanied by an incomplete pale gilded line, the two 

 expanded by the interior angle into an ocellated mark, which is 

 varied with black and gilt, and sprinkled with blue; some blue 

 streaks along the interior border, aud a row of ferruginous sub- 

 marginal dots ; a minute black discal dot, as is usual in this genus. 

 Hind wings luteous, with broad cupreous black borders ; cilice 

 luteous. Length of the body SJ lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubieday, Esq. 



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