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Show 1890.] CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. 497 PHCEGOPTERA, Boisd. PHCEGOPTERA LERIA, sp. n. Primaries pale yellowish fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with minute black scales ; an indistinct pale yellow waved sub-marginal line crosses the wing from the costal to the inner margin ; the fringe brown and yellow. Secondaries pale yellowish white, almost hyaline near the base ; the fringe yellowish white ; the underside of both wings as above but paler in colour. The head and thorax pale fawn-colour; the abdomen brownish black on the upperside, the underside and the legs yellowish fawn-colour, the antennae blackish brown. Expanse 2\ inches. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. Druce). PHCEGOPTERA LED A, sp. n. Primaries and secondaries pale yellowish hyaline, darkest along the costal and inner margins of both wings, the costal margin of the primaries dotted with brown. The head, thorax,and tegulae pale fawn-colour, a black dot on the base of each of the tegulae ; the upperside of the abdomen pale orange-yellow, the underside yellowish white ; the legs orange-yellow spotted with black ; the antennae dark brown. Expanse 3 inches. Hab. Dominica (Angas, Mus. Druce). This insect is allied to P. elota, Mdschler. PHCEGOPTERA LAUDIA, sp. n. Primaries and secondaries uniformly pale yellowish hyaline, with all the veins dark brown ; the head, thorax, abdomen, and legs orange-yellow; the antennae black. Expanse 2-j inches. Hab. Trinidad (Mus. Druce). A distinct species, very unlike any others known to me. PHOJGOPTERA ALMOPIA, sp. n. Primaries and secondaries pale greyish brown, the secondaries whitish near the base, the veins on the primaries darker brown than the ground-colour of the wing. The head and thorax blackish brown ; the abdomen on the upperside yellow banded with black, the underside dark brown; the antennae, palpi, and the legs almost black. Expanse 2 | inches. Hab. Antioquia, Frontino (Salmon, Mus. Druce). This insect is allied to P. umber, Cram., but is a smaller and much paler coloured species. PHOJGOPTERA ALSA, sp. n. Primaries reddish hyaline brown, darkest at the base and along the costal and inner margin, a very indistinct waved submarginal line crosses the wing from the costal to the inner margin above the anal angle. Secondaries almost hyaline excepting at the apex and partly round the outer margin, which is shaded with reddish brown. The head, thorax, abdomen, and legs brownish fawn-colour ; antennae black. Expanse 2\ inches. Hab. Dominica (Angus, Mas. Druce). |