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brown, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand which is 
blackish, paler along the hind border and on the disks of the areolets; 
three of the latter have colourless streaks ; the tip and a large spot beneath 
the middle of the fore border are also colourless ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 
veins black, ferruginous at the base, tawny along the fore border and in the 
colourless parts of the wings; curve of the tip eross-vein very decided, but 
hardly angular ; scales and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 63 lines ; 
of the wings 14 lines. 
South America. 
DicHeLacera YAcILLANs, Fem. 
Picea, capite antico fulvo subtus cano, pectore ventreque canescentibus ab- 
domine nigro, segmentorum marginibus posticis lividis, antennis fulvis, 
apice nigris, pedibus nigris, tibiis piceis, alis cinereis, fusco fasciatis 
ad costam fulvis. 
Body dark brown: head tawny in front, hoary and clothed with white 
hairs beneath; eyes bronze, parted above by a rather narrow interval ; 
facets very small, but slightly inereasing in size as they approach the inner 
fore border: sucker black; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi tawny, long, 
slender: feelers tawny ; first and second joints clothed with short black 
hairs; tip of the second joint sharply angular ; horn almost as long as the 
third joint whence it springs, much curved downward ; compound joint 
black, hardly curved upward, very much shorter than the third joint: chest 
pitchy ; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed with white hairs; abdo- 
men black, very slightly decreasing in breadth towards the tip, a little 
broader and very much longer than the chest; hind borders of the seg- 
ments livid; under side tinged with gray; legs black, clothed with short 
black hairs ; shanks pitchy, ferruginous towards the base; foot-cushions 
pitchy ; wings gray, dark brown at the base, dark tawny along the fore 
border as far as the brand which is blackish; a dark brown, very broad 
band beneath the brand, not extending to the hind border ; the two areolets 
beneath the fore border, and between this band and the base, are very pale 
gyay ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the hase and along the fore 
border; curve of the tip cross-vein slight; scales and poisers pitchy. 
Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
Brazil. 
