228 HETEROCERA. 
DREPANA. 
Drepana, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. 2, p. 155 (1802) ; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1159. 
This genus now includes a large number of species; it is very widely distributed 
over the Old and New Worlds; from our country, however, we have as yet only 
received a single species. 
1. Drepana chaonia, sp. n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 7, 2.) 
Female, Primaries brownish fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown minute dots, an indistinct brown 
band crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin close to the base, a black spot at the end of the 
cell, and a brown line crossing from the apex to the middle of the inner margin; secondaries brownish 
fawn-colour, with the costal half uniformly pale yellow, a short central brown line on the darker half 
below which are two rows of black dots; the underside of both wings reddish-yellow, with a central 
brown line: head and the front of the thorax pale yellowish fawn-colour; thorax and the upperside of 
the abdomen dark brownish fawn-colour, the latter beneath, the legs, and the underside of the thorax 
orange-yellow ; antenne pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
A single specimen only of this dull-coloured insect was sent; in form it resembles 
the European D. sicula, but differs in marking and colour from that species. 
MIMALLO. 
Mimallo, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 190; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1336. 
Walker placed in this genus six species, all from Tropical America; one of these is 
now known to extend as far north as Mexico. 
1. Mimallo amilia. 
Phalena Attacus amilia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 180, t. 265. ff. D, EK’. 
Mimallo amilia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 190; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1837 7. 
Phalena vorax, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, i. p. 47, t. 20°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (&idde).—Gu1ana 
(mus. D.), Surinam 122; Amazons; Souru-East Braziu °, Rio Janeiro; TRINIDAD. 
This species is found over a very extended range of country. I have a good series 
of specimens before me; they do not show the least variation. The two specimens 
from our country are both males; those from South America in my own collection 
are, however, all females. ‘The larva, pupa, and cocoon are figured by Sepp (Joc. cit.) ; 
the larva lives in a case which it constructs of pieces of wood and grains of sand. 
Fam. PSYCHIDA. 
Three genera of this family are now known to inhabit Central America; a fourth 
has been named by Guérin-Méneville as Dipyle, D. boucardi (cf. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 
1867, p. 455), from the larval case only!—this latter was brought from Mexico by 
M. Boucard. 
