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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 305 yellowish white. The legs above dark brown, on the underside yellowish white. Expanse ly inch. Hab. Bolivia (Buckley, Mus. B.). Very distinct from any species known to me. HETERUSIA CONNA, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) Male. Primaries black; the veins at the base yellow, a wide orange-yellow band crosses the wing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the anal angle, which it does not quite reach. Secondaries black, with a large central elongated white spot; the fringe of both wings black. Underside very similar to the upper-side, but with more white on the secondaries. Head, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs black. Female identical with the male. Expanse ly^ inch. Hah. Ecuador, Chiguinda, Intaj (Buckley, Mus. B.). HETERUSIA PLACIDA, sp. n. (Plate XXI. figs. 5, 6.) Male. Primaries and secondaries dark orange-yellow. Primaries : the base brown, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three waved black bands, the first two near the base, the third beyond the middle ; the apex and outer margin broadly bordered with black. Secondaries : the veins, costal margin, apex, outer margin, and a submarginal line all black; the fringes of both wings yellowish brown. Underside : primaries bright yellow ; the costal margin and apex reddish brown, irrorated with grey scales, three narrow bands, partly crossing the wing, and the outer margin black. Secondaries grey, thickly irrorated with small reddish-brown scales ; a spot on the inner margin and the apical part of the wing dark brown. Head, antennae, palpi, thorax, and abdomen black ; the underside of the abdomen and legs greyish brown. Expanse ly^ inch. Hab. Ecuador, Chiguinda (Buckley, Mus. B.). On the upperside this species slightly resembles S. stoltzman-naria, Oberth., but on the underside it is very different. HETERUSIA COMANA, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 7.) Male. Primaries and secondaries dark orange-brown. Primaries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four black bands, the first and second narrow near the base, the third and fourth wide and joined together near the anal angle, forming a large U-shaped mark, from which two short bands extend to the inner margin; the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle broadly bordered with black ; the fringe alternately white and black. Secondaries : the veins, a submarginal waved line, and the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle black; the fringe yellow and black. Underside: primaries bright yellowy with the black lines as above ; the costal margin and the apex greyish brown. Secondaries |