HETEROCERA. 505 
Subfam. HEMICERIN (to precede the subfamily Hybleine, I. p. 335). 
PLUSIODES. 
Plusiodes, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 385 (1852). 
1. Plusiodes(?) laronia. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 13.) 
Plusiodes (?) laronia, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 5187. 
Primaries dark brown, with a purplish shade near the base and along the outer margin, thickly irrorated with 
minute greyish-brown scales, and with several minute pale greyish-brown spots in the cell, a row of 
similarly-coloured spots beyond it, crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, and four pale 
greyish-brown spots along the outer margin towards the apex, a greyish submarginal waved line extending 
from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe dark brown; secondaries pure white, very broadly bordered 
with black from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe white: head and thorax purplish-brown above, 
irrorated with minute grey specks, brown beneath ; the abdomen whitish-brown, paler beneath, the anus 
with a reddish tinge; the palpi blackish-brown ; the legs brown; the antenne reddish-brown. Expanse 
2 inches. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.1).—Ecuapor, Sarayacu }. 
Of this species. I have seen a single example only from within our limits. 
2. Plusiodes(?) agenoria. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 14, 3.) 
Plusiodes (?) agenoria, Druce, P. Z.S. 1890, p. 519°. 
Male. Primaries purplish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by darker brown lines, with a wide 
V-shaped greyish-black mark on the costal margin close to the apex, this mark being edged with greyish- 
white, and three pale yellowish-brown spots close to the apex, the costal margin and the cell streaked with 
greyish-white, the fringe dark reddish-brown ; secondaries white, broadly bordered with black from the 
apex to the anal angle, the fringe greyish-white: head, front of the thorax, and the base of the tegule 
bright red, the rest of the thorax and the antenne purplish-brown ; the abdomen blackish-brown above, 
paler beneath ; the legs reddish-brown.— Female. Similar to the male, except that the secondaries are 
almost black to the base. Expanse, ¢ 14, 2 12 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith+: 2 ).—Ecuapor, Sarayacu !. 
I have seen two specimens only of this insect: a male from Ecuador and a female 
from Mexico. 
8. Plusiodes alesa. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 15.) 
Plusiodes alesa, Druce, P. Z.S. 1890, p. 5197. 
Primaries purplish-brown, crossed by darker brown bands beyond the cell, with three brick-red streaks on the 
costal margin close to the base and three others on the inner margin, the latter extending towards the 
middle of the wing, a narrow >-shaped yellow line crossing the wing beyond the cell, whence several 
narrow straight yellow lines extend to the outer margin, a black streak edged with yellow at the end of 
the cell, and two curved greyish lines close to the apex, the marginal line yellow, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries pure white, broadly bordered from the apex to the inner margin with black, the fringe 
greyish-white: head and the base of the collar bright red, the thorax and tegule purplish-brown; the 
thorax and base of the abdomen with some brick-red spots in the middle; the abdomen dark brown above, 
paler beneath ; the antenna, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 2 inches. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Boucard, in mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in 
mus. D.1), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger })—Ecuapor, Sarayacu *. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. II., August 1898. 3 tt 
