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Bengal (placed doubtfully in Dirphia by Walker); and MM. rudi (Linn.), from Europe 
(placed in Lasiocampa by Walker). Judging from the figures, I do not think that these 
insects can be considered congeneric ; I therefore have taken WU. (Bombyx) rubi as the 
type. Two species are now known from our country. 
1. Metanastria psidii. 
Bombyx psidii, Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1857, p. 16, t. 1. ff. 2, a-c (¢ 9)’. 
Lasiocampa psidii, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 560. 
Hab. Mexico? (Boucard), Cordova (Sallé1), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Capetillo 
(Champion). 
This insect appears to be common in the State of Vera Cruz, whence we have received 
many specimens, but only a single example, a male, was sent from Guatemala. 
M. psidii closely resembles the European MM. rudi (Linn.), but is rather larger and 
darker in colour, and the pale bands are more curved than in that species. 
The larva, of which dried examples are contained in the British Museum, is figured 
and described by Sallé!; it is said to feed upon the guayava (Psidiwm) and on a species 
of oak. 
2. Metanastria mexicana, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fige. 9¢, 102.) 
Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, darker from the base to about the middle, crossed from the costal margin 
to the inner margin just beyond the cell by two whitish bands ; secondaries very pale fawn-colour : head, 
thorax, and abdomen pale brown; antenne reddish-brown. Female. Primaries pale fawn-colour, slightly 
shaded with pink, the pale-coloured bands much wider apart than in the male, and with a small vitreous 
spot at the end of the cell ; secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, with a pale submarginal band extending from 
the apex to the inner margin ; underside as above, but pinker in colour: head, antenne, and thorax fawn- 
colour ; abdomen and legs pinkish-brown. Expanse, ¢, 23 inches; 9, 3 inches. 
Hab. Mexico (mus. Staudinger). 
The female of this species resembles, to some extent, the figure of Ormiscodes lasto- 
campina, Felder. 
Iam greatly indebted to Dr. Staudinger for the loan of these specimens; they are 
the only ones I have seen. 
ASBOLIA. 
Asbolia, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 7; Moschler, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. 
p. 359 (1872); Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 671, t. 9. £. 35 (187 7). 
One of the described species of this Tropical-American genus extends northwards 
into our region. 
1. Ashbolia sericea. 
Asbolia sericea, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, p. 671, t. 10. f. 36°; Beitr. Schmett.- 
Faun. Surinam, ii. p. 43, t. 10. f. 36 (1878). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—DvutcH Gutana, 
Paramaribo 1. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., March 1887. 2 ce 
