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Show 1890.] CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. 503 ERIOGASTER, Germer. ERIOGASTER ALERIA, sp. n. Primaries pale grey, shaded with dark brown, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin with waved white lines; a dark-brown elongated spot at the end of the cell. Secondaries very pale grey, with a submarginal waved white line extending from the apex almost to the anal angle, but not quite reaching it; the fringe and underside of both wings pale grey. The head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey; anteunae and legs greyish brown. Expanse 21 inches. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. Druce). This species is allied to Eriogaster submarginalis, Walker, from Colombia. HYDRIAS, Herr.-Schaff. HYDRIAS AMATHURIA, sp. n. Primaries brown, thickly irrorated with very minute black scales ; a large black spot at the end of the cell, beyond which is a row of very minute white dots crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin; a faint submarginal black line extends from near the apex to the anal angle. Secondaries pinkish brown; the costal margin dark brown, irrorated with minute black scales from the base to the apex. The underside of both wings uniform pale brown. The head, thorax, and base of the abdomen dark brown; the abdomen pinkish brown ; the antennae, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 1-| inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. Druce). This species is allied to Hydrias psorica, Herr.-Schaff. HYDRIAS LASCORIA, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 12.) Primaries reddish brown, with the veins mostly black; a dark-brown mark near the base below the cell, beyond which a narrow waved black line crosses the wing from the costal to the inner margin; the costal margin broadly streaked with greyish white. Secondaries: the costal half of the wiug greyish white, slightly irrorated with brown scales ; the abdominal half of the wing pale reddish brown ; a submarginal dark brown waved line extends from the apex to the anal angle. The underside uniformly pale reddish brown, slightly greyish at the apex of the secondaries. The head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the collar grey ; antennae, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 15 inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. Druce), HYDRIAS LAUDIA, sp. n. Primaries dark brown ; the costal margin, a wide line extending from near the apex and crossing the wing about the middle to the inner margin, creamy white ; on the inner side of the line is a second narrow curved white line, which joins the first about the middle of the wing; a very indistinct waved submarginal white line extends 34* |
