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Show 1878.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAMAICA. 487 external spots: secondaries pinky brown, crossed by two dark lines which form a central semicircular area, in the middle of which is the dark discocellular lunule; a dusky submarginal belt; margin and fringe as above : body below pinky-brown; tarsi black, banded with testaceous or pinky whitish. Expanse 1 inch 6 lines. This singular species has somewhat the aspect of a Dasychira ; it seems, however, to be allied to the genus Neenia. 90. HOMOPTERA TERROSA, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 11. n. 1332 (1852). Whether Walker has rightly identified this species I cannot say, but his H. posterior is the same as his H. terrosa. 91. BOLINA FASCIOLARIS, Hiibner, Samml. ex. Schm. Zutr. figs. 443, 444. 92. BOLINA CUNEARIS, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 70. n. 1414 (1852). 93. BOLINA PERPENDICULARIS, Gue'nde, Noct. iii. p. 65. n. 1404 (1852). 94. BOLINA EVELINA, n. sp. Markings nearly as in B. ochrodes, but the primaries slaty grey, the large reniform patch of the same colour, the internal two thirds of the central band whity brown mottled with greyish brown; two triangular black subcostal spots resting upon the inner margin of the trisinuate red-brown discal stripe ; external area soft silver-grey ; marginal line yellowish; fringe brown, white at external angle ; secondaries with the basal half and fringe white, the external half black; thorax lilacine, abdomen grey. Wings below with the basal half and fringe white, the external half blackish; primaries with a white spot just beyond the cell; fringes tipped with black ; body white; the palpi and legs fringed with pink. Expanse 1 inch 9 lines. Most like B. agrotoides in the pattern and coloration of the primaries. 95. BOLINA? CONFIRMANS, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1157. n. 25(1857). This species would, in m y opinion, be better placed with Biula. I can find no difference whatever between Syneda limbolaris (a species much like a Bolina) and Grammodes grandirena of Walker's Catalogue. 96. PEOSINA NUMERIA, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pl. 23. fig 5 (1770). The species from Venezuela is quite distinct, the specimens from St. Domingo identified by Walker as P. mexicana being referable to P. numeria. For Walker's P. numeria I would propose the name of Hypogramma confusa ; it is nearly allied to Hypogramma sublucida. |