34 ; HETEROCERA. 
brown, thickly irrorated with dark orange-brown scales, with lines crossing the wings as above, but more 
distinct : head, thorax, abdomen, and antenne dark orange-brown, pale yellowish-brown beneath, the 
anus and legs yellowish-brown. Expanse zy inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion). 
The sexes of this species are very similar; the only specimen of the female that I 
have seen was collected by Arcé. Allied to P. sterrhata, Guen. 
5. Pyrinia solata. 
Crocopteryx solata, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 75 (3) ’. 
Pyrinia solata, Walk. Cat. xx. p. 86. 
Pyrinia prusiasaria, Walk. Cat. xx. pp. 90, 228°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger)—Ecuapor; Braztu}?, Rio 
Janeiro 3. 
The specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is paler in colour than 
either of those (from Brazil) in the British Museum. | 
6. Pyrinia rutilaria. 
Pyrinia rutilaria, Hibn. Zutr, Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 29, figg. 173, 174°, and Verz. bek. 
Schmett. p. 294°; Walk. Cat. xx. p. 87”. 
Crocopteryx rutilaria, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 76°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam ! 23, 
One specimen from Bugaba, almost identical with Hiibner’s figure. 
7. Pyrinia megara, sp.n. (Tab. XLIV. figg. 8, 9, ¢.) 
Male, Primaries and secondaries dark brown, both wings crossed about the middle by a very indistinct darker 
brown line; underside yellowish-brown, with the costal margin of the primaries paler, and the apex 
reddish-brown, the secondaries crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a reddish- 
brown line: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the underside and legs yellowish-brown ; antenne 
dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).. 
The Chiriqui specimen is paler in colour than the one from Guatemala, and shows 
the lines crossing the wings more distinctly. The Guatemalan example is figured. 
~CRATOPTERA. 
Cratoptera, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 44, 65 (1850-58) ; Guenée, Sp. gén. 
des Lép. ix. p. 76 (1857). 
Cratoptera contains a few species from Tropical America. Four are here recorded 
from within our limits, three of which are described as new. 
1, Cratoptera arvina, sp.n. (Tab. XLIV. fig. 10, 2.) 
Female. Primaries and secondaries pale grey with a slight yellowish tinge, irrorated with very minute black 
