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Show 1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 331 CCELODASYS PEGASIS. Primaries above with the costa broadly buff, the inner margin violaceous brown, and the intermediate portion brown shaded with buff and violaceous ; the base of the wing narrowly buff, limited by a transverse blackish line; at the end of the cell a short transverse brown streak, followed by several longitudinal brown streaks; the basal and outer transverse lines angular and indistinct; a submarginal series of small dark spots, and a marginal row of black points; the fringe alternately brown and buff. Secondaries brown, the fringe yellowish. Underneath brown, the fringe buff. Body brown, the collar edged with black. Expanse 40 mm. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. (EDEMASIA TERRENA. Primaries fawn-colour, shaded with dark brown, darkest along the inner margin ; a cluster of black scales below the middle of the median vein: halfway between this spot and the outer margin another similar spot resting on the posterior portion of a very indistinct, outwardly curved, and wavy pale line, which reaches from the costal to the inner margin ; the outer margin with the veins dark, finely edged with buff; a series of oblique pale lines between the veins ; a large pale space at the base of the primaries. Secondaries dark brownish grey. Centre of thorax and abdomen very dark cinereous. Thorax laterally and head light fawn-colour. Expanse 50 mm. Hab. Coatepec, Mexico. (EDEMASIA MAXTLA. Primaries fawn-colour, shaded with brown along the inner and outer margin; longitudinal brown lines on the outer half of the wing and a few pale oblique lines on the outer margin between the veins : at two thirds from the base an indistinct, pale, outwardly curved, transverse line, angular near the inner margin. Secondaries brownish, whitish towards the base. Head and thorax fawn-colour. Abdomen brownish dorsally. Expanse 38-42 mm. Hab. Coatepec, Mexico. This species is very similar to QZdemasia terrena, Schaus, but may be distinguished by its paler colour and by the thorax, which has no dark markings. OZDEMASIA GUARANA. Primaries fawn-colour ; a large basal space without markings; the median space shaded with brown, beyond which is a transverse, slightly curved, narrow, white band, divided by a blackish line; the outer third of the wing dark cinereous, except a small fawn-coloured space on the outer margin below the apex, a submarginal row of blackish marks, and a marginal row of similar but smaller spots |