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Show 1885.] MR. H. D R U C E O N N E W HETEROCERA. 519 dusky white scales : secondaries uniform dark brown, with two spots in the middle of the cell, and just beyond the end of the cell three small white dots ; the tips of the nerves along the outer margin from the apex to near the middle dusky white. The underside the same as above, but the spots are more distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black ; legs black ; antennae wanting. Expanse 4 inches. Hab. N. India, Darjeeling. This species is allied to A. euplocoides and A. stelligera: from the former it is at once distinguished by the entire absence of the creamy white of the secondaries ; from the latter by wanting the marginal row of white spots to both wings and being without the blue marginal band. ZYG^ENID-E. SYNTOMIS, Ochs. SYNTOMIS GEON, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 2.) Primaries pale chrome-yellow ; the costal apex and outer margin bordered with black, on the inner edge very much dentated ; a black band at the end of the cell joining a small oval-shaped black spot about the middle : secondaries chrome-yellow, narrowly bordered with black on the outer margin. Front of head, collar, and tegula bright yellow ; back of head and thorax black ; abdomen yellow, banded with black ; anus black ; antennae black, tipped with white ; legs black. Expanse 1^ inch. Hab. Philippine Islands, Mindanao (Semper). CHARIDEA, Dalman. C H A R I D E A MARIAMNE, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 3.) Primaries deep black, with the basal half brilliant morpho-blue, crossed from the middle of the costal margin to near the anal by a narrow bright orange band: secondaries brilliant blue, broadly margined with black at the apex; head, thorax, and abdomen bright metallic blue ; the underside of abdomen with a central white streak. Antennse, palpi, and legs black. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Colombia, Bogota. This beautiful little species is quite unlike any known to me, and it is one of the most brilliantly coloured insects belonging to this genus. M Y D R O D O X A , Butler. M Y D R O D O X A SEMPERI, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1.) Primaries glossy greenish black, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by a bright metallic golden-yellow band, a row of metallic blue spots close to the base: secondaries glossy black, with an oval hyaline central spot between the costal and inner margin. Head, collar, and front of the thorax bright carmine ; thorax & 34* |
