206 . HETEROCERA. 
prownish-white, darker at the apex and round the outer margin, a faint narrow brown submarginal line 
extending from the costal margin above the apex to a small black dot near the anal angle; the underside 
paler than above: head, thorax, and abdomen brown.—Female. Very similar to the male. Expanse 
3 inch. . . 
4 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
-One male and two females. 
SYLLYTHRIA. 
Syllythria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 349 (1816). 
Hematia, Hiibner, loc. cit. . 
Rhodaria, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 168. 
The species of this genus are very widely distributed. ‘Ten are known to me from 
within our limits, five of which are described as new. 
1. Syllythria tyralis. 
Rhodaria tyralis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 169° ; Walk. Cat. xvii. p. 316”. 
Botys tyralis, Leder. Wien. ent. Monats. vii. p. 367 *, 
Pyrausta erosnealis, Walk. Cat. xvii. p. 811+. 
Botys diffissa, Grote & Robins. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 19, t. 2. fig. 16°. 
Botis bellulalis, Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 149°, 
Hab. Nortu America2, United States 4, Louisiana®, Texas °—MeExico, Cuernavaca 
in Morelos, Amula in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan 
(Gaumer).—Cusa 1235; Brazit %. | 
Three specimens. 
2. Syllythria rosa, sp.n. (Tab. LX. fig. 19.) | 
Primaries rose-pink ; secondaries pale fawn-colour, darker near the apex, shaded with rose-pink on the outer 
margin near the anal angle: head and antenne fawn-colour ; the thorax and abdomen fawn-colour above, 
white beneath, the tegule pink ; the legs white. Expanse ;, inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), - 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). | 
Allied to & tyralis (Guen.), but without the yellow markings on the primaries. We 
figure a specimen from Presidio. 
3. Syllythria idessa, sp.n. (Tab. LX. fig. 20.) 
Primaries dark pink, crossed from the costal to the inner margin.by two rather wide bright yellow bands—the 
first near the base, the second beyond the middle,—and with a round bright yellow dot at the end of 
cell; secondaries dark pink, shaded with yellow: head, antenne, collar, and legs pale brown, the 
and abdomen dark pink, the anus yellow. Expanse # inch. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
thorax 
One specimen only of this very distinct species has been received. 
