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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 323 along the outer margin. Head and thorax light green. Abdomen brown. Expanse 19 mm. Hab. Coatepec, Mexico. TRABALA CICUR. Male. Primaries reddish yellow, the veins slightly darker ; a darker basal streak along the median vein, and below this an irregular darker shade curving round it towards the apex; a marginal darker shade. Secondaries and abdomen reddish yellow. All the fringes very long. Expanse 34 mm. Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. TRABALA DRUCEI. Wings and body bright brownish yellow. On the primaries a brown, slightly curved streak from about the middle of the inner margin to the costal margin, very close to the apex; a dark marginal line. Expanse, 3 30 mm., $ 36 mm. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. This species was described and figured in the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana' as the female of Vipsania anticlea, Druce. TRABALA CEBRENIS. Primaries light green, a large brown space occupying the basal half of the wing above the median vein ; the outer margin and part of the inner margin light brown, with a greyish marginal streak. Secondaries brown, slightly blackish along the outer margins. Head and thorax light green. Abdomen brown. Expanse 28 mm. $ . Hab. Coatepec, Mexico. TRABALA BRUMALIS. Primaries above brown, darkest along the costal margin; the basal half of the median vein blackish; below this an indistinct whitish line curving upwards to the apex; beyond this a sub-marginal greyish shade, and then a marginal whitish shade from the apex to the middle of the inner margin; the extreme margin and fringe brownish. Secondaries light brown, thickly speckled with darker scales. Body brown; two light streaks on the head and thorax. Expanse 42 mm. $ . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. VIPSANIA FRIGIDA. Primaries light brown, faintly tinged with pinkish ; a pale olive-green patch at the base of the costal margin, including a minute brown spot ; from the base of the wings, following parallel with the inner margin for a short distance and then extending to the costal margin close to the apex, an olive-green irregular line, partly shaded |