198 HETEROCERA. 
OXYTENIS. 
Oxytenis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 150; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1181. 
Syssaura, Hiibner, loc. cit. p. 150 (partim). 
This Tropical-American genus is represented in our country by four species. Walker, 
in his Catalogue, has, I think rightly, included in Oxytents two species, O. honesta and 
O. zerbina, both of which Hiibner placed in Syssaura. 
1. Oxytenis honesta. 
Phalena Attacus honesta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 25, t. 302. ff. C, D’. 
Syssaura honesta, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 150. 
Oxytenis honesta, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1182’. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (A7zdde, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Ecuapor ; Peru; Guiana, Surinam!2; Amazons, Para. 
This species ranges over a very wide extent of country ; the Amazons region, whence 
I have received a good series of specimens of both sexes, would, however, appear to be 
its headquarters. From our country I have only seen two specimens—a male obtained 
by the late Mr. Belt at Chontales, and a female from the Volcan de Chiriqui in the 
collection of Dr. Staudinger; the last-named agrees well with the female examples 
before me from Ecuador, excepting that it is a darker brown (as is also the Chontales 
male) and rather smaller. In some respects Dr. Staudinger’s Chiriqui specimen is like 
the figure of O. modesta, Cramer, though it has not any of the black markings; on the 
underside it agrees well with the male from Chontales. 
2. Oxytenis lonomica, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 1, 3.) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, shaded with dark brown, a narrow reddish line crossing 
the primaries considerably beyond the middle and extending from the apex to the inner margin near the 
anal angle, a corresponding line crossing the middle of the secondaries, below this line a series of lunate 
markings with patches of paler colour on their outer edge, and nearer the outer margin a row of very 
indistinct darker fawn-coloured spots: head, thorax, and abdomen above the same colour as the primaries ; 
antenne and legs yellowish-brown; the underside of the abdomen pale yellow, of the primaries and 
secondaries yellow with all the darker markings considerably more distinct than above. The female is 
altogether darker than the male, and the spots on the secondaries are very much darker in colour, Expanse 
24 inches. 
Hab. GuareMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Stau- 
dinger). 
This insect is most nearly allied to O. attacina, Walker, from Colombia. 
3. Oxytenis malecena, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 2, 3.) 
Male. Primaries reddish fawn-colour,.palest from the base to the middle, where a reddish-brown line crosses 
from the apex to the inner margin, nearest the base between the reddish-brown line and the outer margin 
is a second waved line with pale-coloured markings between it and the margin, the surface close to the anal 
angle is thickly speckled with black scales; secondaries almost uniform reddish fawn-colour, palest at the 
base, and close to which they are crossed by a narrow reddish-brown line (being a continuation of the 
