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Show 1894.] PROM TROPICAL AMERICA. 227 mark. Wings hyaline, narrowly and evenly bordered with black ; all the veins black and a black line at the end of the cell. Exp. 30 millim. Hab. Castro, Parana. 10. DYCLADIA CINGLA, sp. nov. Palpi yellow. Head black, frons grey. Collar yellow. Thorax yellow, with three black stripes and a metallic blue spot posteriorly. Abdomen yellow; the third segment dorsally black, with three blue spots and two minute yellow spots; the following two segments with a black subdorsal spot each ; last segments black, with a subdorsal and lateral blue spots. Wings hyaline, narrowly margined with black; the apex of the primaries broadly black; the costal vein yellow; the inner margins yellowish. Exp. 26 millim. Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 11. MARISSA REGIA, sp. nov. Antennae black, tipped with white. Head black, frons whitish, two metallic blue spots posteriorly. Collar black, two metallic blue spots. Thorax black, a broad white streak on patagia; a posterior blue and whitish spot. Abdomen, first three segments crimson, the second spotted with black and blue; the other segments black, with a subdorsal, two lateral, and two ventral rows of white spots. Legs black ; tarsi, joints, and fore coxae white. Primaries hyaline, the margins broadly black, still more so at the apex and inner angle; a small vitreous elongate spot on the costal margin at the base ; a basal transverse black mark ; a large black spot at the end of the cell, and connected by a broad black mark on vein 2 with the inner angle. Secondaries hyaline, the margins irregularly bordered with black. Exp. 34 millim. Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. Obs. Allied to M. eane, Hiibn. 12. ^ETHRIA PAULA, sp. nov. Body velvety black ; the last three segments of the abdomen dorsally and laterally crimson; a round whitish spot on either side of the collar. Wings hyaline, the veins black and all the margins broadly black; at the end of the cell on the primaries a broad black spot from the costa to nearly the black border of tbe inner margin. Exp. 46 millim. Hab. San Paulo, S.E. Brazil. Obs. Closely allied to AS. hcemorrhoidalis, Stoll, which has, however, the basal segment of the abdomen crimson, and has a black spot on the costal margin of the secondaries near the apex. PTYCHOTRICOS, gen. nov. Antennae pectinated in both sexes, more so in the male than in the female. Primaries long and narrow, the outer margin very |
