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Show 510 MR. H. DRUCE ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [June 17, a row of submarginal minute black dots ; the fringe olive-brown. Secondaries dark brown, palest at the base; the fringe pale greyish brown. Underside : primaries pale brown, with a marginal row of black dots near the apex. Secondaries greyish brown, broadly bordered with darker brown round the outer margin. The head, thorax, and anus olive-green ; the antennae and abdomen on the upperside dark brown, the latter on the underside pale greyish brown; the legs pale greyish brown; the palpi olive-green, the terminal joint black. The female the same as the male, but larger, and rather paler in colour. Expanse, d 1£ inch, 2 If inch. Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch, Mus. Staudinger). A very distinct species, allied to Edema pulchra, Butl., from the Amazons. EDEMA ALATA, sp. n. Male. Primaries very pale greyish fawn-colour, speckled along the costal margin and beyond the cell with small brown streaks ; a row of very minute brown spots crosses the wing from the apex to about the middle of the inner margin; several black dots close to the base. Secondaries greyish white, darkest at the apex and round the outer margin. The underside as above, but paler, and with the spots on the primaries entirely absent. The head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale fawn-colour; the antennae darker brown. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trotsch, Mus. Staudinger). One specimen in Dr. Staudinger's collection, very distinct from anything I have seen. GJ.DEMASIA, Packard. 03DEMASIA (?) ALCIMEDE, sp. n. Male. Primaries dark brown, with a reddish-brown spot and two yellow lines close to the base ; a greyish-white row of spots crosses the wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a submarginal row of greyish spots with black points extending from the apex to the anal angle ; the fringe dark brown. Secondaries uniformly dark brown, the fringe rather paler. The underside brown, with the costal margin of both the wings and the fringe yellovrisb. The head and collar, the thorax and upperside of the abdomen dark brown; the tegulae golden brown; antennae dark brown ; the underside of the abdomen and legs pale yellowish white. Female. Considerably larger than the male, and much duller in colour, without the greyish line on the primaries; the base of the wing much paler in colour and without the yellow lines ; the underside of a more uniform dusky brown colour. Expanse, d I4 inch, 2 If inch. Hab. Panama: Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion)', Chiriqui (Ribbe, <5 2 Mus. Staudinger) ; Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, 2 Mus. Druce). A very distinct species, of which both sexes are in Dr. Staudinger's collection. Mr. Champion captured a specimen on the Volcan de |
