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Show 264 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON N E W [Feb. 19, even when shot at. When flying they utter a note like "caga, caga," and on the ground run clumsily and slowly, generally forming a line. In Northern Tibet they were frequently heard flying about at night; but no cause could be found to account for this strange behaviour. The Kokonor basin, according to Prjevalsky, forms the northern and probably also the eastern limit of its geographical distribution. Male. Head and back of neck barred alternately with black and white, chin and front yellowish white. Sides of neck and throat orange-yellow. Breast buffy white, barred irregularly with brownish black. Upper part of back and wings buff, lower part of back and rump buffy white; all the feathers minutely mottled with black, hardly perceptible on the wings. Inner webs of scapulars black. Primaries and secondaries brownish black ; the fourth to eighth primary brownish white at the tip, mostly on the inner web. Median rectrices like the back, lengthened and filamentous, their apical half black ; lateral feathers reddish buff, barred with black, and tipped with white. Under surface white ; under tail-coverts reddish buff, barred with black and tipped with white. Legs and feet covered with buffy-white feathers ; bill and nails black. Total length 15| inches, wing 10, tail 7\, bill along gape \. 4. Descriptions of nineteen new Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera from Central America. By F. D U C A N E G O D M A N and OSBERT SALVIN. [Eeceived Jan. 18, 1878.] Nearly half of the species described in this paper have been sent us during the past year by Mr. H . Rogers from Costa Rica, where he has been collecting on the slopes of the volcano of Irazu. The rest of the species are selected from unnamed specimens in our collection, some of them from Guatemala and some from Mexico. Figures of most of them have been prepared and will be published shortlv. Specimens of all the species are in our collection. SATYRIDA. 1. EUPTYCHIA PHILODICE. cf. Exp. 1*9 in. Margin entire, anal angle of secondaries slightly produced ; rich brown, central portion of the primaries slightly paler, middle of the secondaries rich reddish fulvous with a very distinct tawny-yellow patch, the inner edge slightly sinuate, the outer extending to two black submarginal spots between the radial nervules; a third nearly obsolete black spot between the median branches : beneath reddish brown, a dark band crossing both wings through the middle of the cell of each, strongly sinuate on the secondaries ; beyond the cell of the primaries are two subparallel transverse bands including towards the inner margin a tawny yellow band ; a conspicuous tawny yellow band crosses the secondaries |