100 HETEROCERA. 
6. Byssodes nazada, sp. n. (Tab. L. fig. 28, 2.) | 
Female. Primaries and secondaries pure white ; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
six greyish bands, these bands edged on either side with a darker line, the second and third bands wider 
than the others, the sixth very narrow and not reaching the inner margin, the marginal line grey, the 
fringe white; the secondaries partly crossed about the middle by two yellowish-grey lines, and with a 
submarginal grey band edged with black on the outer side extending from the apex almost to the anal 
angle, the outer margin and the anal angle shaded with yellow, a faint metallic line extending from the 
inner margin partly round the wing, and a black spot on the outer margin ; the underside pure white, the 
secondaries slightly clouded with grey round the outer margin: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and 
legs greyish-white. Expanse 2 inches. ~ 
Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (coll. Schaus). 
One specimen. 
PITYEJA. 
Pityeja, Walker, Cat. xxiii. p. 828 (1861). 
1. Pityeja histrionaria. 
Urapteryx histrionaria, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 63, 78, figg. 71, 72°; Snell. 
Tijdschr. voor Ent. xvii. p. 11°. 
Pityeja histrionaria, Walk. Cat. xxvi. p. 1625 *, 
Pityeja bellaria, Walk. Cat. xxiii. p. 829 ‘. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Purula (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten, in mus. D.); 
Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe).—CoLoMBIa ®, Antioquia ; VENEZUELA ! +. 
The six specimens of this species before me show considerable variation in the colour 
of the secondaries, from almost white to deep orange. The females are more highly 
coloured than the males. A single example only has been received from Guatemala. 
CHRYSOCESTIS. 
Chrysocestis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 307 (1816); Walker, Cat. xxii. p. 619. 
1. Chrysocestis fimbriaria. 
Phalena Geometra fimbriaria, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 112, t. 348. fig. C 
Chrysocestis fimbriaria, Walk. Cat. xxii. p. 620°. 
Palyas imperata, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 396°. 
Chrysocestis pecilmidia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 332 *, 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; GUATEMALA, San Gerdnimo, Cubil- 
guitz, San Joaquin, and Cahabon in Vera Paz, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion) ; 
Honpuras (Dyson? ; Whitely, in mus. D.); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 
feet (Rogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Panama 
city (J. J. Walker).—Ecuapor ; Guiana, Essequibo River, Surinam +?*; Amazons 4, 
Par4?; Brazin 2, Rio Janeiro. 
Cramer’s figure of C. fimbriaria (t. 348. fig. C) shows only one row of submarginal 
