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CATALOGUE OF 
black stripe on each side. Abdomen with a middle row of brown 
dots and with two lateral stripes of black spots. Fore wings with 
some undulating transverse brownish lines, with a black curved api- 
cal streak, with a whitish discal dot, which is surrounded by a fer- 
ruginous patch, and the latter is partly bordered with black. Hind 
wings dark brown, cinereous about the interior angle. Length of 
the body 18 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 
a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
b , c. Brazil. From M. Becker’s collection. 
9. Macrosila lichenea. 
Cinereo-fusca , viridi suffusa , subtus albida ; antenna albidee ; 
abdomen e strigis lateralibus obliquis nigris bivittatum ; alee 
anticce cinerece , nigro et flavo-viridi varice , lineis transversis 
undulosis albidis , macula basali guttaque discali albis ; pos- 
ticce albido subfuscescentes, f asciis fuscis obscurioribus. 
Macrosila lichenea, Boisd. MSS. 
Cinereous-brown, tinged with green, mostly white beneath. 
Antennse whitish. Abdomen with two lateral rows of black oblique 
streaks. Ciliee with white spots. Fore wings gray, with undulating 
transverse whitish lines, varied also wirh black and with yellowish 
green, and in the female with brown ; a white basal spot and 
a white discal dot. Hind wings whitish, tinged with brown and 
with several darker brown bands. Length of the body 17 — 20 
lines ; of the wings 40 — 50 lines. 
Female . Body and fore wings slightly tinged here and there 
with yellow, which in the fore wings chiefly appears at the base, 
and on a broad diffuse band which contains the discal dot. 
a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
b. ? From M. Becker’s collection. 
10. Macrosila aper. 
Mas. Nigro-fusca ; caput cervinum ; thorax pilis plurimis rigidis 
cervinis ; abdomen e maculis luteis necnon e guttis albis quad- 
rivittatum ; alee anticce atree , venis , gu]ta discali , fascia un- 
dulata exteriore , striga apicali lineaque apud marginem exte- 
riorem testaceis ; posticee cinerece vittis duabus fuscis , viltaque 
lata atra testaceo conspersa. 
Macrosila aper, Boisd. MSS. 
