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Show 1878.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAMAICA. 489 central belt relieved by a whitish border; primaries without the white spot; secondaries with an ill-defined dusky discal belt; fringe white. Expanse 1 inch 3 lines. 102. REMIGIA DISSEVERANS, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1495 (1857). This species is identical with B. persubtilis of Walker, and allied to his Ophiusa delinquens. 103. RHESCIPHA ELEGANS, n. sp. Allied to B. servia, but with narrower wings, the palpi much more slender; the primaries with less distinctly sinuated margin ; a small white dot on lower median interspace close to the margin ; no yellow spots ; secondaries pale reddish instead of smoky brown, the base and costal area white ; thorax burnt-sienna red like the primaries ; abdomen very pale brown, almost white: wings below much whiter than in B. servia; body below snow-white, palpi and tibiae of anterior and middle pairs of legs brown. Expanse 1 inch 7 lines. I find that the genus Bhescipha is most nearly allied to Tetra-tocera. 104. THERMESIA GEMMATALIS, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 355. n. 1828(1852). 105. AZAZIA MONSTRATURA, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1564 (1858). This species is certainly nearer to Azazia than to Thermesia, with which genus Walker placed it. The following genus has been a puzzle to m e ; but it appears to be more nearly allied to Euclidia than to any thing else. CALLISCOTUS, n. gen. Form and general structure of Euclidia, but the body less robust, the palpi shorter, with very short terminal joint, porrect; abdomen shorter; primaries comparatively longer ; subcostal branches of secondaries emitted from a footstalk; discocellulars concave but very oblique. Type C. bowreyi. 106. CALLISCOTUS BOWREYI, n. sp. Primaries pale brown, crossed by numerous irregularly dentate-sinuate black lines; a broad dark-brown subbasal belt, beyond which are two large patches a little paler than the ground-colour, outlined in black ; in the middle of the upper one is a small ocellus, representing the reniform spot, and pale brown edged with black and encircled by a yellowish iris; a few scattered white scales on the external area; subapical area dusky; a dentate-sinuate pale line, white, and followed by triangular black spots between the veins; an interrupted black marginal line: secondaries fuliginous brown, with dusky external border; a dark angulated discal stripe and a blackish anal spot: body whity brown. Wings below whity brown, PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XXXII. 32 |