Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1893

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310 ON N E W SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. [Mar. 28, white, with the apex broadly bordered with black. Underside identical with the upperside. Head, antennae, palpi, and thorax black; tegulae and abdomen white ; legs black. Expanse ly inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). A small species, allied to T. cormasa, Druce, which it closely resembles on the upperside, but on the underside it is very different. TROCHIODES (?) CORAS, sp. n. Male. Primaries brownish black; a rather wdde white streak extends from the base to the middle of the wing, beyond which and nearer the apex is a round white spot. Secondaries semi­hyaline white, bordered with brownish black from the apex to the anal angle; the inner margin greyish ; the fringe of both wings black. Underside almost exactly like the upperside. Head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen black. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). TROCHIODES (?) PLAT^EA, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 22.) Male. Primaries black, an angular-shaped large white spot on the inner margin near tbe base, an orange-yellow spot on the outer margin below the apex. Secondaries white, broadly bor­dered with black; the fringe of both wings black. Underside very similar to the upperside, the orange-yellow spot on the outer margin larger. Antennae, head, thorax, abdomen, and legs black ; the underside of the abdomen white. Female the same as the male. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Ecuador, Chiguinda (Buckley, Mus. B.). EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XIX. Fig. 1. Agyrta phylla, p. 282. 2. Charidea orbona, p. 283. 3. Metastatia chelidon, p. 285. 4. • (?) pales, p. 285. 5. Neozatrephes telesilla, p. 287. 6. Eucereon chalcodon, p. 287. 7. Devara charisia, p. 289. 8. Halisidota pandama, p. 288. Fig. 1. Dioptis charila, p. 292. 2. roraima, p. 292. 3. pallene, p. 293. 4. egla, p. 293. 5. cheledonis, p. 293. 6. charon, p. 294. 7. Monocreagra orthyades, p. 295. 8. (?) chares, p. 295. 9. (?) chorax, p. 295. Fig. 9. Devara pallor, p. 289. 10. chepta, p. 290. 11, 12. Nelo toxicrata, p. 290. 13. Lauron osiba, p. 290. 14. (?)chariata, p. 291. 15. batesi, p. 291. 16. padua, p. 291. 17. Neolaurona ovia, p. 292. XX. Fig. 10. Euchontha ciris, p. 297. 11. Npteria cissoessa, p. 300. 12. pania, p. 301. 13. Eloria cissusa <$, p. 297- 14. Gonora paphia, p. 296. 15. Eloria cissusa §, p. 297. 16. Nipteria philomela, p. 300. 17. Genussa cluaca, p. 297.