184 HETEROCERA. 
4, Emplocia prumnides, sp.n. (Tab. LVIII. figg. 26, 27.) 
Male. Primaries black, from the base to beyond the middle orange-yellow, the fringe black ; secondaries 
orange-yellow, the apex, outer margin, and anal angle broadly bordered with black, and with several 
black spots along the costal and inner margins; the underside of the primaries as above, but with a line 
partly crossing from the costal margin to near the outer margin and a marginal row of short lines white, 
that of the secondaries with a marginal row of elongated black spots : head, antenne, thorax, and legs 
black, the collar and tegule orange ; abdomen black, banded with orange. Expanse 1,%, inch. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen, quite unlike any other species known to me. 
5. Emplocia tortricina, sp.n. (Tab. LVIII. figg. 28, 29, ¢; 30, 2.) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries orange-red ; the primaries bordered with black on the costal margin near the 
base, the apex and outer margin broadly bordered with black, the inner margin edged with black from 
the base to the anal angle, a narrow band near the apex and two or three streaks on the outer margin 
close to the anal angle reddish-orange; the secondaries with three spots about the middle, and a sub- 
marginal and a marginal row of elongated spots all black; the fringe alternately black and orange; the 
underside as above, but with the costa, apex, and outer margin of the primaries streaked with white : 
head, antenne, and thorax black; tegule black, edged with yellow; abdomen black, banded with 
yellowish-white; legs black and white.—Female. Similar to the male, but with the black margin of the 
primaries broken up into rows of spots. Expanse, ¢ 14, 9 14 inch. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
We have a large series of this species. The female somewhat resembles Aterica 
leopardina, Butl., from the same region. 
Fam. SICULIDA. 
This family is of small extent. It has recently been monographed by Dr. A. Pagen- 
stecher in the ‘ Iris,’ v. pp. 5-131 (1892); he divides the Siculide into three subfamilies 
and the genus Siculodes into ten groups; 170 species are enumerated for the entire 
family, no less than 113 of which belong to Siculodes. The Siculide are chiefly 
confined to the warmer portions of the globe, being about equally numerous in species 
in the Neotropical and Oriental regions. Of the six genera referred to it by Dr. Pagen- 
stecher, four are common to the Old and New World; one of these, Dysodia, Clemens 
(= Varnia, Walk.; =Pachythyris, Feld., Guen.), has been already dealt with by me 
under the Family Noctuide, anted, i. pp. 324-326. Dysodia would, no doubt, be 
better placed in the Siculidee. 
RHODONEURA. 
Rhodoneura, Guenée, Sp. Gén. des. Lép., Siculides, t. 1. fig. 8 (1857); Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1877 , 
p. 287; Walker, Cat. xxxii. p.523; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 267; Pagenstecher, Iris, v. p. 48. 
Osca, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p- 73 (1864). 
Dr. Pagenstecher includes nineteen species in this genus from various localities in 
the Oriental region. It is also represented within our limits. 
