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Show 392 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, line; outer border dentated, black ; fringe alternately brown and whitish ; body grey : wings below bright ochreous, crossed by several black lines, much as in the preceding species; outer border black, intersected by a crenated yellow stripe, which in the secondaries unites with the ground-colour at the apex and in the second median interspace ; pectus white, venter creamy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. Three examples. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. A mountain form, found at from 3000 to 5000 feet. 66. FIDONIA ANCEPS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 3.) Allied to the preceding species, but paler; the secondaries above straw-yellow, dusky at the base, crossed by three parallel central dark grey bands ; also with a confnsed zigzag submarginal band of the same colour. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. Two examples. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Also a mountain species. 67. FIDONIA FEROX, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 8.) Primaries dark shining grey, crossed by numerous darker undulated and lunular lines ; two of these form a central band, relieved on each side by a tint of bronzy brown ; outer border broadly tinted with bronzy brown, and bounded within by a double lunulated line ; fringe long and grey ; secondaries fiery orange, greyish at base, crossed from the basal third by five black lines, the first and last thickest, the first two straight, the two next lunulated and angulated, the fifth lunulated and arched, submarginal; margin black ; fringe long and brown, grey at the tips; body greyish brown, abdomen annulated with whitish : wings below golden orange; external half crossed by lunulated black and silvery white lines ; body below white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. The prettiest of all the orange-winged species. Found at from 3000 to 5000 feet elevation.' 68. FIDONIA ? ABROGATA. Aspilates abrogata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1075 (1862). Fidonial servularia, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 43 (1868). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. I believe this to be a species of Acidalia ; it certainly has very little in common with Fidonia, and does not at all agree with Aspilates. 69. FIDONIA ? CATAPYRRHA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.) o*, 2 • Primaries above whitish, clouded and banded with brown; the principal markings are an angulated transverse subbasal dark brown band; two central bands forming a band, its inner edge subangulated, its outer edge very irregular, projecting within the median interspaces; an interrupted submarginal brown streak; a brown apical spot, and five oval marginal red spots enclosing black |