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Show 1878.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA. 385 M^PHA, Walker. 11. M J E P H A DITIS, n. sp. Primaries bright yellow, with the veins and two marginal lines carmine; base and outer border sparsely sprinkled with black scales ; two parallel irregular transverse black lines, the first central, the second discal; secondaries pink with white fringe; head and thorax bright yellow, tegulae edged internally with carmine ; abdomen pink : primaries below rosy with yellow borders and traces of two greyish transverse belts; body below cream-coloured, anterior legs and palpi rose-coloured. Expanse 6 lines. Espiritu Santo. BARSINELLA, n. gen. Allied to Barsine (section of Miltochrista), but the wings comparatively much broader, shorter, and more densely scaled ; the costal margin of the primaries angulated, the under surface of these wings crossed at the end of the cell by a perfect fence of long convergent hairs ; the costal margin of primaries with a central fringe of long hairs, the last two or three segments of the abdomen densely fringed with hair. Type, B. mirabilis. 12. BARSINELLA MIRABILIS, n. sp. Primaries bright cadmium yellow, two black spots at the base, a "-^-shaped marking near the base, two irregular parallel central lines, and a discal series of dots black, a G-shaped marking at the end of the cell and the outer margin carmine, fringe golden yellow ; Barsinella mirabilis. secondaries rose-red ; head and thorax cadmium-yellow, a black spot on each shoulder; abdomen whitish : primaries below yellow, the basal half of costal border and a discal series of dots black ; secondaries paler than above ; body ochraceous. Expanse 7 lines. Espiritu Santo. N Y C T E M E R I D J E. ALETIS, Hiibner. 13. ALETIS TENUIS, n. sp. Wings fulvous, semitransparent; primaries with the costal and external margins and a broad subquadrate apical patch enclosing a PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XXV. 25 |
