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Show 1893.] SPECIES OE LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 303 FULGURODES CLUACINA, Sy. n. Male. Primaries and secondaries creamy white ; the veins, costal margin, apex, and outer margin brown ; an indistinct waved brown line crosses the wing beyond the middle. Secondaries : a submarginal dark brown line extends from the apex to the inner margin ; the outer margin clouded with brown. The marginal line of both wings dark brown ; the fringes cream-colour. Underside very similar to the upperside. Antennae and palpi dark brown. Head, collar, and tegulae pale brown ; thorax and abdomen white, each segment of the abdomen broadly edged with black; legs dark brown. Expanse 2 | inches. Hab. Colombia, Frontano, Antioquia (Salmon, Mus. B.). NEPHODIA, Hiibn. N E P H O D I A PIERIA, sp. n. Male. Primaries and secondaries greyish white, both wings with a greyish spot at the end of the cell, and with a submarginal brownish-grey line extending from the costal to the inner margin, the line on the secondaries being fainter than on the primaries. Underside similar to the upperside, but slightly darker and with the lines more distinct. Antennae pale brown. Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs greyish white. Expanse ly1^ inch. Hab. British Guiana, Eoraima Mountain ( Whitely, Mus. B.). A small species, quite distinct from any known to me. NEPHODIA PERIMEDE, sp. n. Male. Primaries and secondaries pale semihyaline brownish white, darkest along the costal margin of the primaries. Underside very similar to the upperside, but slightly darker. Antennae dark brown; head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish brown. Female almost identical with the male. Expanse, <$ ly1^, $ lg inch. Hab. British Guiana, Eoraima Mountain ( Whitely, Mus. B.). Allied to A. pieria, Druce. NEPHODIA OISSA, sp. n. Male. Primaries and secondaries whitish hyaline, with a faint brown shade ; the veins near the outer margin very pale brown. Primaries crossed from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin by a faint greyish-brown line; the marginal line and the fringe pale brown. Secondaries crossed by two greyish-brown lines, the first about the middle, the second beyond ; the fringe white. Antennae pale brown; head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; tegulae greyish brown ; legs brown. Expanse ly^ inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). 21* |