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6. Oxydia gastropachata. (Tab. XLIII. fig. 10, 9, var.) 
Oxydia gastropachata, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 62°; Walk. Cat. xx. p. 55%. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge; coll. Schaus), Coatepec (coll. Schaus) ; Guatemana, in 
the city (Rodriguez).—-Brazi } 2, 
Apparently a rare species. We figure a variety of the female from Mr. Schaus’s 
collection. 
7. Oxydia aromata, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 11, 2.) 
Female. Primaries and secondaries pale cream-colour, each with a black dot at the end of the cell, and crossed 
beyond the middle by a narrow yellowish-brown line, which extends from the apex to the inner margin of 
the primaries, and is then continued across the secondaries to about the middle of the inner margin; the 
primaries with the base broadly banded with fawn-colour, the apex and the outer side of the line crossing 
the wing to the outer margin also fawn-colour, an indistinct row of cream-coloured patches extending 
from the apex to the anal angle, the last patch much larger than the others; the secondaries with the 
base irrorated with dark fawn-coloured scales, and with a rather large irregular black spot near the apex 
on the outer side of the line that crosses the wing, the wing itself on the outer side of the line clouded 
with fawn-colour near the anal angle, and with three distinct pale cream-coloured spots extending across 
it towards the apex; the fringe pale yellowish-brown; the underside with the markings very much as 
above, but slightly darker in colour: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs cream-colour, the antenna» 
yellowish-brown. Expanse 3} inches. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus). 
The single specimen from which the description is taken is so very distinct from all 
the forms of the allied species that I have ventured to name it; it is possible, however, 
that it may be only an extreme variety of O. vesulia (Cram.) or O. gastropachata, Guen. 
8. Oxydia trychiata. 
Oxydia trychiata, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 56'; Walk. Cat. xx. p. 51°. 
Cherodes translineata, Walk. Cat. xx. p. 24°. 
Mucronodes mundipennata, Walk. Cat. xx. p. 37 *. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger).--VENEZUELA®; Brazin!24, 
9. Oxydia platypterata. 
Oxydia platypterata, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 61, Phalén. t. 4. f. 3°; Walk. Cat. xx. p. 547. 
Cratoptera recurvaria, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 65, 83, ff. 483, 484°. 
Cratoptera (?) recurvaria, Walk. Cat. xxvi. p. 1494‘. 
? Oxydia nattereri, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 122. f. 16°. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus); Panama, Chiriqui (TZrétsch, in mus. Stau- 
dinger).—-CoLoMBIA, Antioquia ; VENEZUELA?*; Brazin}25, 
Some specimens of this insect are almost uniformly coloured, and others very much 
spotted. I have very little doubt that O. platypterata, Guen., and O. nattereri, Feld. 
& Rogenh., belong to one and the same species. 
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