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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 329 LANGSDORFIA POLYBIA. Light greyish brown, the primaries with a large whitish space occupying the outer portion of the wing; apex and outer margin, however, greyish brown ; a quadrate whitish space below the median vein ; here and there a few dark striae. Underneath, the secondaries almost entirely whitish, and on all the wings widely separated dark striae. Expanse 40 m m . Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. Allied to Langsdorfia forreri, Druce. GrIVIRA TECMESSA. Primaries above violaceous brown, with interrupted transverse rows of small darker spots ; the basal half of the inner margin broadly velvety brown. Secondaries whitish, the outer margins broadly blackish. Length of body 14 m m . Expanse 42 m m . Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. GrIVIRA PHILOMELA. Primaries whitish grey, darker along the inner margin and at the apex, and crossed by numerous short dark lines; a black spot at the end of the cell. Secondaries dark grey. Body light grey, the base of the abdomen somewhat darker. Length of body 13 m m . Expanse 37 m m . Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. ZEUZERA RAMOSA. Male. Primaries above with the costal margin dark brown from near the base to the apex ; a light brownish space occupying the cell and extending somewhat beyond it; from the middle of the median vein to the centre of the outer margin an irregular black line; the base, inner margin, and outer margin otherwise white with transverse black striae. Secondaries above white, with a few blackish striae along the outer margin. Body whitish, speckled with black. Expanse 41 m m . Hab. Rio Janeiro. Closely allied to Eudoxyla strigillatu, Felder. Fam. HEPIALID^S. DALACA PRYTANES. Primaries greyish brown, with some white streaks along the costa; a short, oblique, dark brown basal streak edged with whitish; a dark brown shade, enclosing some small silvery marks, from the end of the cell to near the inner angle ; a submarginal, transverse, brownish band, darker where contiguous to the above mentioned dark shade ; the primaries otherwise crossed by indistinct transverse |