188 : HETEROCERA. 
colour, some being much paler than others and with the lighter markings more 
distinct. We figure an example from Bugaba. 
3. Draconia (?) rusina, sp.n. (Tab. LIX. fig. 9.) 
Primaries and secondaries pale fewn-colour; the primaries with a large angular whitish hyaline marking, 
extending from the anal angle almost to the apex, and crossed by fine fawn-coloured lines, and with 
several small hyaline spots just below the middle of the cell and along the inner margin; the secondaries 
with the base and a band crossing about the middle whitish hyaline; the hyaline markings on both wings 
formed of small rounded or angular spots: head, antenne, thorax (except in front), and abdomen dark 
fawn-colour; the collar, the front of the thorax, and the tegule greyish-white. Expanse 2} inches. 
Hab. Guatemata, La Tinta in Vera Paz (Champion). 
One specimen, differing greatly from the preceding species in having the costal 
margin of the primaries strongly arched. 
va 
Fam. PYRALIDE. 
Subfam. CHRYSAUGINA. 
Semniide, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monats. vii. p. 8383 (1863). 
- SEMNIA. 
Semnia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 353 (1816); Walker, Cat. xix. p. 833; Lederer, Wien. 
ent. Monats. vii. p. 833; Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 479 (45). 
Acronolepia, Westwood, Zool. Journ. v. p. 451 (1834). 
The type of this Tropical-American genus is S. auritalis, Hiibu. (= Acronolepia 
quadricolor, Westw.); four. other species have been referred to it by Felder and 
Rogenhofer. 
1. Semnia auritalis. 
Semnia auritalis, Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 28, figs. 361, 362’; Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 3537; Lederer, Wien. ent. Monats. vii. p. 334, t. 6. fig. 4°; Walk. Cat. xix. p. 884‘; 
Ragon. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 480 (46) °. 
Acronolepia quadricolor, Westw. Zool. Journ. v. p. 452°. 
Acronolepia biguttals, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 134. fig. 187. 
Virbia notata, Walk. Cat. 11. p. 472°. 
? Noctua elongata, Sepp, Pap. de Surinam, i. p. 93, t. 43°. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (Schaus); Guatemaua, Teleman and 
Panima in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet ( Champion), 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger), Panama city (J. J. Walker), Obispo 
(Salvin, in mus. D.).—Gutana, Surinam®; Amazons’; Brazi 3568, Rio Janeiro 1 4. 
The spot at the base of the primaries varies in colour: in all the Guatemalan 
specimens before me it is dark yellow, almost of the same colour as the secondaries ; 
