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each side of the upper appendage. Fore wings lurid, here and 
there reddish, with many black spots and dots, some of them con- 
fluent. Hind wings lurid, brown for nearly half the length from 
the tips; veins red. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings Lo 
lines. 
a. Port Natal. From Mr. Plant’s collection. 
Genus POTOCERA, Cat. Hom. p. 290. 
Po1ocERA PERSPICILLATA, p. 291. 
Three pale varieties of this insect appear like distinct species. 
The first has the head and the thorax blackish ferruginous; veins of 
the fore wings ferruginous, testaceous in the reticulated part, and the 
not reticulated part contains many indistinct Iuvid spots. The 
second variety is still more different; the head and the thorax are 
pale testaceous; the disk of the abdomen is black hindward ; the 
fore wings are pale lurid, tinged with green along the costa, and 
with a reddish tinge in the reticulated part, which is pale brown, 
With several pale spots; the lurid part with many minute brown 
streaks; the costa with black marks. In the third variety, which is 
Mexican, the testaceous spots of the fore wings are much more dis- 
tinct, and the veins are tawny; the lateral spots of the hind wings 
are obsolete. 
PotocERA ATOMARIA. 
Fusca ; vertex brevissimus ; frons plana, subtuberculata, septem 
carinata, margine non elevato ; facies subcarinata ; thorax 
subcarinatus ; abdomen lete rufum, subtus nigrum ; ale an- 
tice viridi confertissime guttata, fasciis duabus exterioribus 
connexis albidis, apice pallide fusco albido guttato ; postice 
vilree, nigro venosa@. 
_, Brown. Vertex very short; front flat, minutely tuberculate, 
with seven slight and incomplete ridges; border not elevated ; 
sides and fore border hardly concave ; face and thorax very slightly 
keeled. Abdomen bright red above, black beneath. Fore wings 
with very numerous pale green dots; two whitish exterior bands, 
connected in the middle; apical part pale brown, with a few 
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