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Show 242 ON N E W HETEROCERA F R O M TROPICAL AMERICA. [Mar. 6, brownish spots ; a terminal row of lunular green spots between the veins ; the fringe dark grey. Secondaries greyish, with the extreme outer margin much darker. Underneath greyish, the extreme margins brown. Exp. 40 millim. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. 62. EDEMA ASTUTA, sp. nov. Palpi brown. Head dull yellow. Collar brown. Thorax light lichen-green. Abdomen brown above, dull yellow underneath, with a dark ventral line. Primaries above dark brown, with the inner margin broadly greyish ; the veins flecked with alternately dark and light scales; the middle of the costal margin, a quadrate spot in the cell, and some surrounding shades of a very dark and dull brown; a submarginal series of triangular dark spots, followed by a row of small clusters of black scales ; the apex yellowish white, with some subapical light brown streaks; the fringe brown, spotted with yellowish. Secondaries above browm, with the fringe dull yellow. Underneath, the wings are brown with a pale shade at the apex of the primaries and a marginal row of brown dots. Exp. 48 millim. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico; Aroa, Venezuela. Obs. This species is very closely allied to E. mandela, Druce. 63. LIRIMIRIS (?) MEPHITIS, sp. nov. Palpi, head, and thorax brownish grey; the abdomen paler, except dorsally on the first segment, where there is a tuft of rich brown hairs. Primaries above greyish brown, slightly darker towards the outer margin, except a submarginal transverse shade which is very indistinct; the inner margin irrorated with much lighter scales, amougst which a few small clusters of dark brown scales are very conspicuous : at the end of the cell two dark brown spots, the lower one much the larger. Secondaries above brown, with a few dark scales at the anal angle, surmounted by a small yellow spot. Underneath, the wings are light brown, with a few small black streaks on the costal margin of the primaries near the apex. Exp. 2 46" millim. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. Obs. Also in coll. Mason. 64. LOPHODONTA (?) PALLIDA, sp. nOV. Head and thorax greyish white. Abdomen greyish brown. Primaries above greyish white, the base shaded with brown; an inner transverse, dark brown, geminate line, indistinct towards the costa; a small brown shade in the cell, followed by a dentate brownish transverse line ; a geminate, dark brown, outer line, dentate, followed by two yellow spots between veins 2 and 3, and 3 and 4, outwardly shaded with brown ; a dark greyish costal space beyond the outer line; a terminal, fine, brownish line from the costa to vein 2. Secondaries brownish, the costal margin mottled with |