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Show 498 MR. H. DRUCE ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [June 17, PHCEGOPTERA AMBROSIA, sp. n. Primaries dark brown, with all the veins black, marked much the same as those of P. suffusa, Herr.-Schaff., but considerably darker ; secondaries brownish hyaline. The head, thorax, and tegulae dark brown, the collar and tegulae banded with red ; the upperside of the abdomen bright carmine ; the anus and last two segments banded with black ; the sides and the underside of the abdomen dark brown ; the antennae and legs brown, the palpi black. Expanse 3| inches. Hab. Antioquia, Frontino (Salmon, Mus. Druce). A fine species. Allied to P. suffusa, Herr.-Schaff. ARCTIA. ARCTIA RODRIGUEZI, sp. n. Primaries black, with a pinkish-white streak extending from the base almost to the anal angle, on the costal side of the streak beyond the middle is a large pinkish-white -..(-shaped mark, and on the costal margin near the base is a small streak crossing the wing almost to the inner margin. Secondaries bright carmine, broadly bordered with black, above which close to the anal angle is a row of three small black spots. The head, antennae, thorax, tegulae, and legs black, the abdomen bright carmine; the anus and underside black. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Guatemala, in the City (Rodriguez). Fam. MELAMERID-E. THIRMIDA, Walk. THIRMIDA SUPERBA, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 10.) Primaries black glossed with dark blue, the basal half of the wing bright orange, the orange colour does not extend to either the costal or inner margin ; the veins crossing the orange are black: secondaries black glossed with bright dark blue ; the fringe of both wings black. The antennae, palpi, head- thorax, and legs black ; the abdomen bright blue. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Upper Amazons (Mus. Bruce). This fine species is allied to Scea cleonica, Druce. THIRMIDA DIMIDIATA. (Plate XLII. fig. 11, $ .) Thirmida dimidiata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 466. Walker described the male of this fine insect. I now give a figure of the female from a specimen in m y own collection from Colombia; both sexes are in the Hope collection at Oxford. FLAVINIAJ Walk. FLAVINIA ALCIDAMEA, sp. n. Primaries and secondaries bright citron-yellow ; the costal, outer, and inner margins of both wings narrowly bordered with deep black ; the black is widest at the apex of the primaries. The head, thorax, antennae, palpi, and legs black ; the abdomen black, banded on the |