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Show 1893.] SPECIES OE LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 283 underside of the secondaries whitish at the base. Head, antennae, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs black; the underside of the abdomen white. Expanse ly inch. Hah. Ecuador, Chiguinda (Buckley, Mus. B.). I provisionally place this insect in the genus Argyroeides, Butler, from which it differs in having rather longer and wider primaries and longer secondaries; the antennae are also slightly more deeply pectinated. SYNTRICHURA, Butl. SYNTRICHURA CERES, sp. n. Mcde. Primaries hyaline white ; the veins, apex, outer and inner margins black. Secondaries hyaline, the apex broadly bordered with black. The head and thorax black, front of head and the collar white. Antennae and legs black. Abdomen above dark bluish black, with a row of white spots down the middle from the base to the anus. The underside of the thorax and abdomen greyish white. Expanse ly inch. Hab. British Guiana, Essequibo Biver (Whitely, Mus. B.). A very distinct species, not nearly allied to those already described. Fam. ARCTIIDJE. Subfam. CHARIDEIN^E. CHARIDEA, Dalm. C H A R I D E A ORBONA, sp. n. (Plate X I X . fig. 2.) Male. Primaries and secondaries deep black. Primaries streaked with blue on the costal margin, close to the base. A wide orange band crosses the wing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the outer margin above the anal angle. Underside very similar to the upperside, but the secondaries are shot with dark blue at the base and on the costal margin ; the fringes of both wings black. Head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, and legs black. Collar, tegulae, and a narrow line down tbe middle of the abdomen bright blue. Female identical with the male. Expanse, d1 $ , If inch. Hab. S.E. Brazil, Santa Catharina (Mus. B.). A very distinct species, allied to Charidea jynx, Hiibn., from which it is at once distinguished by entirely wanting the broad yellow band on the inner margins of the primaries. ANDROCHARTA, Feld. A N D R O C H A R T A LEECHI, sp. n. Male. Primaries dark brown, with two small metallic blue spots at the base, a round spot in the cell nearest the costal margin, |
