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Show 280 MR. W. SCHAUS O N N E W [Apr. 5, AMMALO THRAILKILLI, sp. nov. Primaries dark brown, indistinctly mottled with paler scales. Secondaries reddish yellow. Head and thorax brown. Abdomen dorsally red, with transverse black bands ; underneath brownish. Expanse 55 m m. Hab. Paso de San Juan, Vera Cruz, Mexico. HALISIDOTAORUBA, sp. nov. Primaries above pale fawn-colour, mottled with brown, a brown line extending through the middle of the wing, from the base to the apex, a brown discal spot, a marginal and a submarginal row of brown spots. Secondaries whitish, a row of small spots on -the apical half of the outer margin. Head and thorax fawn-colour, with a central brown line. Abdomen fawn-colour dorsally, white laterally and underneath. Expanse 58 m m. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. SYCHESIA HARTMANNI, sp. nov. Primaries dark brown, an indistinct wavy submarginal shade. Secondaries black-brown, faintly hyaline in the disk. Head and thorax above brown, an orange spot at the base of the antennae ; thorax underneath orange. Abdomen dorsally black, laterally orange, underneath brown. Expanse 40 m m. Hab. Petropolis. SYCHESIA JANEIRA, sp. nov. Male. Primaries above light brown, with numerous transverse pale streaks, all the veins orange-brown; secondaries yellowish white, black on the margins. Head and thorax brown, the collar edged with dull orange. Abdomen dorsally orange, the first segment unspotted, the following three with large transverse black spots, the other segments with subdorsal black spots; abdomen underneath brown, wavy along the sides where confluent with the orange. The anus dark brown. The female differs in having the secondaries entirely dull brownish black. Expanse 52 m m. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. PHiEGOPTERA SCHAFFERI, Sp. nOV. Primaries white, mottled with brown, chiefly across the centre of the wing. Two orange basal spots, beyond which is a broken curved row of orange spots, and orange spots at the end of the cell; two rows of orange spots beyond the cell, and an orange spot at the extremity of each vein. Secondaries whitish, with black margins. Head and thorax brown, spotted with orange. Abdomen dorsally |