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Show 1878.J LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAMAICA. 491 black, encircled with orange: frons deep red, with white angles a central longitudinal green stripe; crest deep red, speckled with white; antennae deep red, annulated with white ; back of head, collar, and tegulae emerald-green ; thorax and abdomen pale pinky brown or flesh-colour. Wings below much paler than above, especially at outer margin, sericeous; primaries with a small red apical spot; palpi above dark red tipped with white, below pearly white; pectus snow-white, legs and venter pearly white. Expanse 1 inch 1 line. 115. MECOCERAS BITACTARIA, Walker, Lep. Het. xxii. p. 607 (1861). 116. HYRIA VINACEA, n. sp. Laky purple, with rather broad ochreous outer border, between which and the general colour is a belt, reddish externally and slaty grey internally; abdomen with ochreous margins: wings below paler than above, the border cream-coloured; body below cream-coloured. Expanse 7 lines. A pretty little species. 117. EROSIA INCONGRUA, n. sp. Sordid white, reticulated and speckled with brown: primaries with the base of costa cinereous ; an irregularly elbowed testaceous line across the basal third; an angulated dark brown discal line (blood-red in certain lights), terminating on inner margin in a semicircular brown spot ; four submarginal brown spots on the apical half of outer border: secondaries with a black-edged sagittiform streak through the cell; a white-edged elbowed blackish line across the disk, bounded internally near the abdominal margin by an oblong patch of red-brown; apical area clouded with reddish brown; border between the caudal processes greyish, black-edged internally ; two submarginal black dots on the median interspaces : body white, with grey head and collar. Under surface sordid white, speckled with black. Expanse 9 lines. 118. ACIDALIA UMBILICATA, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 504. n. 872 (1857). 119. ACIDALIA APPARITARIA, Walker, Lep. Het. xxii. p. 733. n. 145 (1861). 120. MACARIA ACIDALIATA?, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 893. n. 33 (1861). There is a broken example of what appears to be a species of Anisodes; but I hope Mr. Bowrey will send us a good example some day, and thus enable me to identify it with certainty. 121. YPSIPETES? ANOMALA, n. sp. Primaries above with the basal third and costa stramineous, the rest of the wing silvery brown ; basal area crossed by sinuated red- 32* |