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4. Edema lanassa. (Tab. XC. fig. 9, 3.) 
Edema lanassa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 509". 
Male. Primaries olive-green, mottled with dark brown along the costal margin and beyond the cell, a silvery- 
white spot and streak at the end of the cell, beyond which is a yellowish mark and a row of submarginal 
minute black dots, the fringe olive-brown; secondaries dark brown, paler at the base, the fringe pale 
greyish-brown ; the underside of the primaries pale brown, with a marginal row of black dots near the 
apex, that of the secondaries greyish-brown, broadly bordered with darker brown round the outer margin : 
head, thorax, and anus olive-green; the abdomen dark brown above, pale greyish-brown beneath; the 
legs pale greyish-brown ; the antenne dark brown; the palpi olive-green, the terminal joint black — 
Female, Similar to the male, but larger and rather paler in colour. Expanse, ¢ 13, Q 13 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger 1). 
Allied to £. pulchra, Butl., from the Amazons. 
5. Edema alata. (Tab. XC. figg. 12, ¢.) 
Edema alata, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 510°. 
Male. Primaries very pale greyish-fawn-colour, speckled along the costal margin and beyond the cell with 
small brown streaks, a row of very minute brown spots crossing the wing from the apex to about the 
middle of the inner margin, and several black dots close to the base; secondaries greyish-white, darker 
at the apex and round the outer margin; the underside as above, but paler, and with the spots on the 
primaries entirely absent: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale fawn-colour, the antenne dark brown. 
Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. Honpvuras (Wittkugel, in mus. Staudinger); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger '). 
6. Edema purpurascens. 
Amphipyra purpurascens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 37°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Manaos }. 
This species varies greatly in size and colour. The type is in the National Collection. 
7. Edema anica, sp.n. (Tab. XC. fig. 13, ¢.) 
Male. Primaries reddish-fawn-colour, darker on the costal half, and crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by fainter fawn-coloured waved lines, and also by two rows of small black dots beyond the 
middle, the fringe alternately light and dark brown; secondaries dark brown, the fringe paler: head, 
antenne, abdomen, and legs dark brown, the thorax clothed with long fawn-coloured hairs. Expanse 
12 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 
8. Edema morona, sp.n. (Tab. XC. fig. 14, ¢.) 
Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, partly crossed near the base from the costal to the inner margin by a 
wide dark brown band, and beyond the cell by two very indistinct rows of minute black dots with lighter 
spots on the inner side ; secondaries pale brown, darker from the apex to the anal angle ; the fringe pale 
greyish-brown ; the underside of both wings very pale, without markings: head, thorax, abdomen, and 
legs pale greyish-brown, the antenne dark brown. Expanse 1? inch. we 
Hab. Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger), Obispo (Salvin, in Mus. Brit.). 
