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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 277 ACLYTIA HECALE, Sp. nOV. Primaries dull black, faintly hyaline in the disk and darkest on the margins and at the end of the cell. Secondaries hyaline, with a broad black margin. Antennae, head, and thorax black; two crimson spots behind the antennae. Abdomen black, with a lateral band of metallic blue. Base of all the legs bright crimson. Expanse 39 m m . $ . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. CHARIDEA INACHIA, sp. nov. Female. Primaries above velvety black, with a large orange space extending in its anterior portion from the base along the subcostal vein to beyond the cell, and posteriorly along the sub-median vein to close upon the inner angle, and divided by two black lines, one just below the median vein, the other just above the submedian ; a small black transverse mark at the end of the cell. Secondaries velvety black. Underneath black, with a large triangular orange spot on the primaries. Head and thorax black. Abdomen above steel-blue, with two black dorsal lines; underneath black. Expanse 33 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. METRIOPHYLA LENA, sp. nov. Primaries above velvety black, fringe white; the basal third of the costal margin narrowly white. Secondaries above black, glossed with dark blue ; the outer margin narrowly, the apex broadly, white. Underneath : wings black, glossed with dark blue; the apices and outer margins white. Antennae black. Head crimson. Frons white. Thorax black, with a white spot on either side. Abdomen black above, tinged with dark blue ; underneath black, with a white ventral line. Anus crimson. Legs black exteriorly, white inwardly. Expanse 36 m m . Hab. Peru. AUTOMOLIS ELISSA, Sp. nOV. Wings pale yellow, secondaries slightly hyaline. Head orange. Collar and thorax yellow. Abdomen dorsally black, except fourth and fifth segments, which are orange with two black subdorsal spots ; abdomen laterally and underneath orange, with three lateral black spots on the third, fourth, and fifth segments. Expanse 54 m m . $ . Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. GALETHALEA PERUVIANA, sp. nov. Male. Primaries above white, shaded with greenish grey; along the costal margin five large irregular black spots, also three similar spots on the inner margin and three small black spots on the outer margin; underneath the spots are suffused and occupy nearly the entire wing, forming a broad submarginal band. Secondaries above |