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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 319 their base. Palpi very short, woolly, descending. Abdomen stout, not extending beyond the secondaries. Primaries broad, straight along the costal margin to near the apex, then convex ; outer margin straight, the inner angle very convex. Secondaries with the costal margin very slightly convex ; the outer margin convex. The discal cells very short, not extending beyond a third from the base. PREPTOS OROPUS. Fawn-colour, the outer margins broadly brown and separated from the ground-colour by a straight dark line, extending from the apices to the inner margins near the angles on both the primaries and secondaries; a median and on the primaries also an outer transverse dark wavy shade; a blackish spot on the subcostal vein of the primaries near the base. Underneath yellowish fawn-colour; a median and a submarginal dark brown, lunular, transverse band, and between these three similar but less distinct bands. Head and thorax pale fawn-colour. Collar dark brown. Abdomen dark fawn-colour. Expanse 95 mm. $ . Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. LEBEDA DOERI. Male. Dark brown, reddish grey about the inner angle of the primaries, with three small black spots ; the primaries also crossed by four pale lines, the inner two straight, the outer two slightly oblique ; a small white point in the cell. Underneath brown flecked with greyish scales ; two transverse pale lines from the costal margin of the primaries near the apex to the inner margin of the secondaries. Expanse 75 mm. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. ARTACE ANULA. Female. Primaries above whitish with transverse greyish streaks, and a circular grey spot on the inner margin. Secondaries above greyish white, with a broad submarginal dusky band. Underneath grey, with a white marginal line. Body greyish. Expanse 43 mm. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. ARTACE MERIDIONALIS. Female. Primaries above white, with a basal, a median, and an outer row of dark grey spots on the veins, and two grey spots at the end of the cell; a marginal and a submarginal dusky grey transverse band, and a row of black spots on the extreme margin between the veins. Secondaries above grey, darker along the inner margin. Underneath: primaries grey, with the apex white and a row of dark spots on the extreme margin; secondaries grey, with the fringe white. Head and thorax grey. Abdomen dorsally dark grey, underneath white. 23* |