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Show 322 MR. w. SCHAUS ON NEW [May 3, TlTYA ARGENTATA. Female. Primaries above silvery white, the margins and fringe finely brown ; a broad brown band from the middle of the inner margin to the costal margin near the apex. Secondaries brown. Underneath, all the wings brown. Body brown, reddish brown towards the anal segment. Expanse 52 m m. Hab. Rio Janeiro. MEGALOPYGE RADIATA. Brown, the basal half of the primaries below the median vein much darker and outwardly bordered with white, whence white lines extend towards the outer margin ; at the end of the cell a large velvety brown spot; beyond the cell white lines radiate towards the apex and outer margin. Secondaries brown. Body brown. Head behind the antennae white. Expanse 54 m m . $ . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. MEGALOPYGE ACCA. Primaries above pinkish brown ; a blackish median transverse line. Secondaries roseate. Underneath roseate, the apices of the primaries brownish. Head and thorax brownish. Abdomen red. Expanse 30 m m . 3. Hab. Rio Janeiro. DALCERA TIJUCANA. Primaries yellowish white, faintly reddish along the outer and inner margins and through the centre of the wing ; fringe yellow; a black oblique line at the end of the cell, and a black shade along the median vein. Secondaries bright yellow. Head orange, collar yellow, thorax pinkish, and abdomen dorsally yellow ; underneath orange. The wings underneath are yellow, with a small black mark at the end of the cell on the primaries. Expanse 35 m m. Hab. Tijuca, Rio Janeiro. PlNCONIA COA. Orange, all the veins on the primaries outlined with yellow, more distinctly so in the male than in the female. Expanse, 3 33 mm., 2 44 m m. Hab. Coatepec, Jalapa, Mexico. PARASA MINIMA. Primaries light brown ; a transverse median green band, widening on the inner margin to the base of the wing; a submarginal wavy, darker brown shade ; the veins on the outer margin finely outlined with darker brown. Secondaries very light brown, somewhat darker i |
