LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
1693 
Page 615. 
Genus BRACCA. 
1. Bracca bajularia. 
Bracca bajularia, Hubn. Verz. Sclimett. 179, 1849. 
Arctia? bajularia, p. 615. 
Page 616. 
Genus PERICALLIA. 
Pleretes, Lederer , Verhandl. Zool. Botan. Vereins zu Wien . ii. &c. 
Page 619. 
Daritis marginalis. 
Mas. Nigro-fusca ; thorax fascia interrupta flava; abdomen 
rufum , nigro trivittatum , subtus flavum ; pedes flavo strigati ; 
alee anticee gutta basali ruf a, fascia latissima vitrea maculaque 
magna subqnadrata nigro-fusca , guttis submar ginalibus semi- 
hyalinis ; posticce vi trees, marginibus nigro-fuscis rufo vitreo- 
que variis. 
Male . Blackish brown. Thorax with a bright yellow band, 
which is dilated on each side and widely interrupted in the middle. 
Abdomen red, with one dorsal and two lateral black stripes ; under 
side yellow. Legs with yellow streaks. Fore wings with a red 
basal and costal dot, and beyond the middle with a very broad 
vitreous band, which is dilated in front, and there contains" a large 
blackish brown subquadrate spot ; disk towards the base semihya- 
line ; exterior border with a row of seraihyaline dots; these are most 
apparent on the under side, where the subapical part is red. Hind 
wings vitreous, with blackish brown borders, the latter are inter- 
ruptedly interlined with red, and contain also a row of vitreous 
dots ; a blackish brown streak across the tip of the discal areoiet. 
Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 31 lines. 
This species is closely allied to some species of Pericopis, and 
thus connects the Arctiidce wiih the Pericopidee. 
Santa Fe de Bogota. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
