LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 489 



corpore paullo breviorcs. Abdomen oblanceolatum, alas posticas 

 paullo superans. Pedes validi; tibia; posticce calcaribus quatuor 

 parvis. Abe longiusculae, subangustae ; antieae subfusiformes, ad 

 costam vix eonvexae, postice vix ungulate ; venis la et2a inferioribus 

 basi petiolum iingentibus. 



Female. Body stout, rather short, elongate-sub fusiform. Head 

 of moderate size. Palpi long, curved, ascending, nearly as long as 

 the head ; third joint very minute, not one-sixth of the length of the 

 second. Antenna very slender, beset with minute bristles, about 

 three-fourths of the length of the body. Abdomen oblanceolate, 

 extending for full one-fourth of its length beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout; hind tibia) with four small spurs. Wings rather long 

 and narrow. Fore wings subfusifonn, very slightly convex in front, 

 very indistinctly angular behind ; first and second inferior veins 

 united for some space from the discal areolet; third rather further 

 from the fourth than from the union of the first and the second. 



1. ClSSURA DECORA. 



Coccinea ; thorax nigro-cyaneus fascia antica vittisque duabus 

 coccineis ; pedes nigri ; alee anticce nigro-cyanece vitlis tribus 

 marginrque apicali coccineis ; posticce albidce apicefuscce. 



Crimson. Head, antennae, proboscis and palpi black, the latter 

 crimson at the base. Thorax blackish blue, with a crimson band in 

 front, and with two crimson dorsal stripes. Pectus thickly clothed 

 with crimson hairs. Legs black ; tarsi white at the base. Fore 

 wings bluish black, with three crimson stripes, one near the fore 

 border and on it towards the base, one in the middle, and one on the 

 hind border ; borders crimson towards the tips ; under side without 

 stripes, having a small patch of white hairs in the disk at the base 

 by which there is a transverse loop-vein. Hind wings whitish, brown 

 towards the tips. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 



Genus 92. LYMIRE. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum, 1 on gifusi forme. Caput magnum. 

 Palpi validi, subarcuati, capite paullo breviores; articulus 3us coni- 

 cus, minimus. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Antennae setaceae, 

 mediocriter pectinatae, corporis dimidio paullo longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas dimidio fere superans. Pedes graciles, longiusculi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor minutis. Alae valde angustae, sub- 

 acuminatae. 



