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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 285 VlRBIA PARVA, Sp. OOV. Primaries above brown ; underneath orange, with brown margins, the outer being the broadest. Secondaries above black ; a broad orange band from the base to nearly the outer margin, just below the apex; the inner margin and anal angle narrowly orange ; underneath the same as above. Head and thorax brown. Abdomen black dorsally, orange laterally, white underneath. Expanse 25 m m . Hab. Peru. Allied to Virbia minuta, Felder. LYCES MAERA, sp. nov. Primaries above black ; a transverse orange band from the middle of the costal margin to the inner angle ; underneath black, the transverse band much broader, and two greyish streaks at the base of the wing. Secondaries above orange ; the costal margin narrowly, the outer and inner margins very broadly black ; underneath the same, except that the inner margin is also orange, and there is a white streak on the costal margin at its base. Head and thorax black. Abdomen black dorsally ; laterally a narrow yellow streak ; underneath white. Expanse 38 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. SCEA SOLARIS, Sp. 110V. Primaries black ; a large yellow space extending from the base to close to the centre of the outer margin, this space follows anteriorly along the costa to beyond the cell, and then crosses the wing obliquely ; the veins and a conspicuous streak in the cell are also black. Secondaries black ; a yellow streak beginning towards the end of the cell and extending beyond it. Underside the same as the upper. Body dull black. Expanse 33 m m . Hab. Peru. GANGAMELA AYMARA, sp. nov. Male. Primaries above bright yellow : the base black ; the costal and subcostal veins finely black ; the apex and outer margin broadly black ; the inner margin narrowly black and glossed with dark blue; underneath similar, except that a portion of the base aud inner margin are pearl-white instead of black and there is no blue gloss. Secondaries above black, glossed with blue at the base; yellow towards the apex, which is itself black; underneath pearl-white ; the costal margin yellow ; the apex narrowly black. Head black, frons white. Thorax dark blue. Abdomen above blue, with a subdorsal yellow line ; underneath white. Expanse 24 m m . The female has the primaries above as in the male. The secondaries above are entirely dull black, glossed with blue at the base and along the inner margin; underneath the pearly white is replaced P R O C . Z O O L . S o c - 1 8 9 2 , No. X X . 20 |