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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 281 with the basal half brown, otherwise orange; underneath brown, a lateral row of orange spots. Expanse 53 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. PHTEGOPTERA PROBA, sp. nov. Primaries fawn-colour, minutely speckled with darker scales. Secondaries yellow, slightly hyaline at the base and in the disk. Head and thorax brown, two black dots on the collar. Abdomen yellow dorsally, pale brown underneath. Expanse 80 m m . Sab. Paso de San Juan, Vera Cruz. PH.EGOPTERA NOT AT A, sp. nov. Primaries brown, with three large yellowish-white spots on the costal margin. Secondaries whitish, with the veins and margins brown, and a yellow spot at the base on the costal margin. Head and thorax brown ; two yellow dots on the collar, and a large yellow spot on either side of the thorax. Abdomen black dorsally, with narrow crimson transverse bands; underneath brown, with two rows of white spots. Expanse 51 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. PH^EGOPTERA GRANIFERA, sp. nov. Primaries dark brown, crossed by six rows of yellowish-brown spots; a small white space at the base, another on the middle of the costal margin, and a third subapical. Secondaries uniform blackish brown. Head and thorax brown, spotted with yellow and white. Abdomen dorsally brown on the first four segments, subsequently orange; underneath whitish, laterally orange with some minute whitish spots. Expanse 45 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. PH^EGOPTERA URSINA, sp. nov. Primaries rich brown ; a large irregular whitish spot at the base of the wings ; a whitish spot on the costa at a third from the base, and a large whitish spot extending from the costa just beyond the middle of the wing, and inwardly contiguous to a small pinkish crescent at the end of the cell; an irregular and sometimes broken band of white along the outer margin, extending from just below the apex to the inner angle. Secondaries above duller brown, the costa mottled with white. Underneath pale brown, the spots on the primaries less distinct, and on the secondaries there are two large whitish spots on the costal margin. Head and thorax pale brown, with a broad whitish band on either side. Abdomen above pink, with a subdorsal row of black spots ; underneath white ; laterally a row of black spots. Expanse, 3 42 mm., 2 53 m m . Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. |