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Show 488 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [May 7, 97. T H Y S A N I A Z E N O B I A , Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 115. A, B (1779). 98. EREBUS ODORA, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 811. n. II (1766). The chrysalis of this species is enclosed in a slight cocoon, to which leaves are attached. It appears to m e that at least five species have been confounded under this name ; of these three are already figured as follows :- 1. E. odora of Linnaeus, in which both sexes are alike in general pattern and both shot with purple ; Drury's figure represents a specimen in which the purple seems to have faded. Jamaica and St. Domingo. 2r. E. odorata of Clerk, in which both sexes are again alike, but different from E. odora, a strongly dentate whitish belt intersected by black lines running through both wings. St. Domingo and New Granada. 3. E. agarista of Cramer, in which the male has a pale discal sinuated belt, and the wings from the centre shot with rose-colour; whilst the female has the belt snow-white, intersected by black lines and a feeble lilacine tint beyond the centre of the wings. Brazil. E. agarista is the most richly-coloured species. W e also have a female from Havannah, which is certainly different, and examples of a species which seems to be distinct from St. Kitts, Nevis, and N e w Granada. 99. PHURYS GARNOTI, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 307 (1852). In m y opinion this species would be better placed in Trigonodes than in Phurys. 100. ACHCEA INDISTINCTA, n. sp. Primaries red-brown, the base and a diffused belt beyond the middle paler ; a nearly triangular subapical costal chocolate-brown patch bounded externally by a white line ; an apical dark-brown spot; costa greyish : secondaries smoky brown, crossed at the middle by a whitish stripe ; fringe white ; a submarginal sordid white spot near the anal angle : body whitish. Wings below pale olive-brown, with the basal area whitish ; primaries with an abbreviated sordid white discal band ; a bifid subapical white spot: secondaries with brown discocellulars, followed by a white central band; a marginal subanal white spot; fringe snow-white : body creamy-white. Expanse 1 inch 9 lines. Allied to A. cyllota. 101. POAPHILA CINEREA, n. sp. Ashy grey, wings with diffused chocolate-brown external area; a faint indication of an irregular central belt, expressed by zigzag limiting lines; an indistinct grey zigzag discal line across the brown area; primaries with a white spot at the inferior angle of the discoidal cell. Under surface paler ; the outer edge of the indistinct |