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CATALOGUE OF 
costa very slightly convex ; exterior border slightly oblique hind- 
ward. Hind wings blackish brown. Length of the body lines; 
of the wings 9 lines. 
a — d. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson’s collection. 
e. Ega. From Mr. Bates 5 collection. 
Female. Ferruginous. Body pale cinereous beneath. Abdo- 
men cinereous-brown, extending beyond the hind wings. Fore 
wings rectangular at the tips, with a few’ black speckles, and with 
two short oblique blackish streaks, which extend from the interior 
border towards the disk ; first streak slender, near the base ; second 
broad, curved outward ; a few minute longitudinal submarginal 
black streaks ; a cinereous spot by the interior angle ; costa straight, 
with oblique very minute black marks ; exterior border very oblique 
hindward. Hind wings dark brow’n. Length of the body 3 lines; 
of the wings 8 lines. 
/. Ega. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
30. Carpocapsa assumptana. 
Fcem. Purpurascente-nigra ; corpus subtus albidum ; caput et 
thorax anticus ochracea; thorax ochraceo bivittatus ; abdomen 
nigro-cupreum ; alee anticce apice subrotundatee, guttis pluri - 
mis strigulis basalibus lituraque submarginali ochraceis, stri- 
gulis costalibus obliquis pallide flavescentibus ; posticce 
ochracece , nigricante marginatce , fimbria pallide ochracea. 
Female . Purplish black. Body whitish and shining beneath. 
Head and fore part of the thorax oehraceous. Palpi porrect, shorter 
than the breadth of the head ; third joint elongate-conical, less 
than half the lengrh of the second. Antennse rather short and stout. 
Thorax with two oehraceous stripes. Abdomen blackish cupreous. 
Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, with very numerous small 
oehraceous dots; basal part with longitudinal oehraceous streaks; a 
transverse irregularly 8-shaped oehraceous mark along the hind 
part of the exterior border ; costa slightly convex, with some minute 
oblique pale yellowish marks along its exterior part ; exterior border 
slightly convex and oblique. Hind wings oehraceous, broadly and 
diffusedly blackish bordered ; fringe pale oehraceous. Length of 
the body lines; of the wings 7 lines. 
a. Ega. From Mr. Bates 5 collection. 
