728 CATALOGUE OF 



Phaegoptera erythronota, Boisd ; Herr.-Schceff. Lep. Exot. Sp. 



Ser. I, pi. 14, f. 58 (1853). 



Male. Gray, sprinkled with black. Head mostly yellow. 

 Palpi red. Thorax with a yellow curved band, behind which are 

 two red spots, and a larger one behind. Abdomen bright red, with 

 a white spot at the base, white at the tip, and with a row of white 

 dots along each side. Fore wings testaceous, with a few black 

 streaks towards the base, with a hindward white stripe, and with a 

 short oblique discal white band, both bordered with black. Hind 

 wings white. 

 Venezuela. 



Female. Testaceous, whitish beneath. Proboscis tawny. 

 Palpi red, white beneath. Antennae pale brown, red at the base. 

 Abdomen red above. Legs white ; fore femora red above, with 

 fawn-coloured tips ; fore tibiae fawn-colour ; posterior femora towards 

 the tips and posterior tibiae towards the base fawn-colour. Fore 

 wings powdered with brown, partly fawn-colour; a red interrupted 

 streak along part of the fore border, and a transverse red mark in 

 the disk at one-fourth of the length ; a white dot between this mark 

 and the hind border ; some red hairs at the base of the hind border ; 

 exterior border brown ; a very large limpid brown-bordered spot be- 

 yond the middle, extending to the fore border, which there is white, 

 end nearly to the hind border ; veins testaceous, dotted with brown 

 in the limpid part. Hind wings white, nearly hyaline, with reddish 

 hairs along the inner border. Length of the body 5— 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 15 — 18 lines. 



Var. /3. Fore wings with the transverse mark and the dot near 

 the base yellow ; exterior border with testaceous dots. 



a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



c. — — ? 



Genus 53. OPHARUS. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis longa. Palpi longi, graciles, 

 porrecti, caput longe superantes ; articulus 2us lo multo longior; 

 3us linearis, 2o multo gracilior et paullo brevior. Antennae medio- 

 criter pectinatae. Abdomen alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes 

 longiusculi, sat graciles ; tibiae postica? calcaribus quatuor longis. 

 Alae longae, angustae. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis long. Palpi long, slender, 

 porrect, extending far beyond the head ; second joint much longer 



