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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 327 also a large red space on the outer margin of the primaries. Body brownish grey. Expanse 44 mm. Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. PEROPHORA ACUTA. Primaries with the apices very much prolonged. Wings light grey, speckled with black ; a black spot in the cell on the primaries ; on the costal margin of the same wings, at about three fourths from the base, a faint brown oblique line; which forms a sharp angle and extends to the middle of the inner margin on the secondaries. Body grey, speckled with black. Expanse 42 mm. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. Fam. COSSID^E. COSSUS PARTLIS. Primaries above black, covered with a network of velvety black lines and striae, the most conspicuous forming an extra-basal and a marginal transverse line; all these velvety black lines are finely bordered with brownish scales: underneath blackish, the costa and the outer margin greyish, with darker spots and striae. Secondaries above whitish, with numerous transverse indistinct striae; the inner margin broadly black : underneath almost the same, but without the dark inner margin. Thorax and abdomen black, with a few brown and grey scales. Expanse 45 mm. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Cossus HORRIFER. Black, the primaries above with a few velvety black lines, chiefly along the costal margin ; a broad basal line, posteriorly bifurcated, and °a submarginal irregular line not reaching the inner margin ; the outer margin with numerous deep black striae. The secondaries above brownish black, with a few indistinct darker lines. Underneath, the wings are dark grey, covered with blackish striae; the disk of the primaries with long black scales. Antennae more deeply pectinated than in Cossus parilis, Schaus. Expanse 70 mm. Hab. Rio Janeiro. COSTRIA ABNOBA. Primaries above dark silvery grey, the outer margin broadly brown, with darker brown spots ; a basal small brownish shade ; a laro-'e, round, whitish discal spot. Secondaries above brown. Underneath greyish brown, the extreme margins spotted with dark brown ; the apices with a small yellowish space. Head and thorax in front dark velvety brown, thorax otherwise silvery grey. Abdomen brownish above, light grey underneath. Expanse 66 mm. Hab. Palmeiras, Rio Janeiro. |