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Show 1897.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHRYSAUGINEE. 659 (3) XANTIPPE BICHORDALIS, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 537. Brazil. fArta rubricalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vii. p. 498. Genus PARACHMA. Parachma, Wlk. xxxiv. 1263 (1865). Zazaca, Wlk. xxxiv. 1269. Perseis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 538. Palpi upturned, thickly scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of head ; frons rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; mid tibiae wdth large tufts of scales at middle and extremity and a large tuft on the 1st tarsal joint; hind tibiae very long in male and roughly scaled, the tarsal joints with tufts of scales diminishing distally ; the spurs short. Fore wing with the apex rectangular; veins 4,5 stalked ; 6 from upper angle ; 7 absent; 8, 9,10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 3 absent; 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. Fig. 24. Parachma ochracealis, o*. \. SECT. I. Fore wing with vein 3 stalked with 4, 5. Type. (l)fPARACHMA OCHRACEALIS, Wlk. xxxiv. 1263. U.S.A. tZazaca auratalis, Wlk, xxxiv. 1269. Asopla culiculalis, Hulst, Tr. A m . Ent. Soc. xiii. 167. (2)fPAKACHMA LUTEALIS, n. sp. Head and thorax yellow marked with fuscous; abdomen yellow suffused with rufous above ; the tufts on hind tarsi rufous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with fuscous and red scales; a broad medial purplish-grey band with red edges indented in cell and toothed just below it; the area near outer angle suffused with purplish grey; a marginal red line. Hind wing pale, with some reddish suffusion near lower angle of cell and on outer margin; traces of a postmedial line. Hab. Sao Paulo (Jones). Exp. 6 16, 2 16-20 m m. SECT. II. Fore wing with vein 3 absent. (3)fPARACHMA METERYTHRA, U. Sp. Purplish grey ; head and patagia marked with yellowish white; palpi and tarsi ringed with yellowish white. Fore wing with |