LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 619 



Dark brown. Thorax in front with an interrupted pale yellow 

 band. Pectus with a few white hairs at the base of the wings. 

 Abdomen red, dark brown at the base, with three dark brown stripes, 

 the lateral pair interspersed with yellow hairs ; under side yellow. 

 Fore wings beyond the middle with a broad yellow band, which is 

 forked in front, and between the forks there is a somewhat rounded 

 yellow spot ; base with red streaks, which are most apparent beneath 

 where there is a tuft of testaceous hairs very near the base. Hind 

 wings luteous, with black veins and with two black bands, the first 

 slender and submarginal, the second broader and marginal, and 

 containing a row of blue spots ; towards the disk there is a black 

 streak, and between it and the first black band on the under side are 

 three pale yellow spots. Legs partly clothed with yellow hairs. 

 Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 34 lines. 



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



Genus 7. ALOPE. 



Corpus mediocriter latum. Proboscis capitis latitudine paullo 

 longius. Palpi breviusculi; articulus 2us lo asqualis; 3us minimus. 

 Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes graciles ; tibiae pos- 

 ticas calcaribus quatuor longis. Alas latas. Mas. — Antennas sub- 

 pectinatas. Fccm. — Antennas simplices. 



Body moderately broad. Proboscis a little longer than the 

 breadth of the head. Palpi rather short ; second joint as long as 

 the first ; third very small. Abdomen extending as far as the hind 

 wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 broad. Fore wings with the second inferior vein rather nearer to 

 the first than to the third ; third more than six times further from 

 the fourth than from the second. Inferior veins of the hind wings 

 like those of the fore wings. Male. — Antennas slightly pectinated. 

 • Fern. — Antennas simple. Allied to Deiopeia. 



I 



A. Alae arnicas ocellatas. - - - ocellifera, Walk. 



B. Alas anticas non ocellatae. 



A. Thorax totus fuscus. 



a. Alas posticas non fasciatas. - - semicincta, Walk. 



b. Alas posticas fasciatas. i - Mopsa, Drury. 



B. Thorax antice coccineus. - - Sangarida, Cram. 



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