470 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



the base to near the tip and is near the fore border. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 21 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



8. PELEOCHLiENA subapicalis. 



Fusco-nigra ; alee anticce mbtus fascia lata media lutea ; postica 

 triente apicali lutea nigro marginata. 



Brownish black. Fore wings beneath with a very broad slightly 

 oblique luteous band, forming a continuous band with the broad 

 subapical luteous band which appears on both sides of the hind 

 wings. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines; of the wings 16—18 lines. 



a, b. Ega, on the Amazon. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



9. Peleochl^na Medarda. 



Var. ? Fusca ; prothorax antice rufus ; abdomen nigrum, flaw 

 bivittatum ; alee anticce vitta una postica nigro-fusca, alteraque 

 subtus lutea apicem versus valde dilatata ; posticce nigrce, vittis 

 duabus luteis, una apicem versus dilatata, 2a postica angusta. 



Phalaena Medarda, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 107, pi. 345, f. F. 

 Phaeochlaena Medarda, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 176, 1818. 

 Surinam. 



Var. P Brown. Prothorax red in front. Abdomen black, with 

 a yellow stripe on each side. Fore wings with a blackish brown 

 stripe extending along the hind borders from the base to the angle ; 

 under side with a slightly curved luteous stripe, which widens much 

 from the base to three-fourths of the length, and is somewhat in- 

 dented near the tip. Hind wings black, with two luteous stripes ; 

 the first widening from the base to near the tip, and occupying most 

 of the disk, the second slender, on the inner border; two marginal 

 luteous dots between its tip and the first stripe. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Genus 75. VIEBIA. 



Corpus breviusculum, sat validum, fere lineare, cylindricum 

 Palpi robusti, recti, porrecti, capite paullo breviores ; articulus 3us 



