HETEROCERA.: 547 
Our Mexican specimens are identical with those from North America in the National 
Museum. 
PARACHMA (to follow the genus Arta). 
Parachma, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1263 (1865); Hampson, P. Z. S. 1897, »P. 639. 
Zazaca, Walker, loc. cit. p. 1269. 
Perseis, Ragonot, Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 538, 
1. Parachma meterythra. (‘Tab. C. fig. 6.) 
Parachma meterythra, Hampson, P. Z. 8. 1897, p. 659°. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, El Tumbador ( Champion); 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).— Brazi., Espiritu Santo}. 
This species varies greatly in size and colour. We figure a small dark-coloured male 
from ‘Teapa. 
LOCASTRA (to follow the genus Macalla, II. p. 198). 
Locastra, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 158 (1858) ; Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1896, p. 469. 
Homura, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monatschr. vii. p. 339 (1863). 
Taurica, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1268 (1865). 
1. Locastra phyalis, sp. n. (‘Tab. C. fig. 7.) 
Primaries very pale fawn-colour, greyish along the costal margin, with a small black dot in the middle of the 
cell and a black streak at the end of it, a faint white band crossing the wing near the apex, but not reaching 
the anal angle, and a row of small black dots along the outer margin; secondaries semihyaline-white, 
greyish at the apex and along the costal margin: head, antenne, tegule, thorax, abdomen, and legs very 
pale fawn-colour. Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (forrer). 
This species is allied to L. nocturnalis, Leder., from Brazil. It is, however, a very 
much paler insect. 
DEUTEROLLYTA (II. p. 199). 
Deuterollyta extensa (II. p. 199). 
To the localities given, add :—Costa Rica, La Uruca, San José (coll. Dognin), Azahar 
de Cartago 5000 to 6000 feet (Underwood, in Mus. D.). 
2. Deuterollyta calitas, sp. n. (Tab. C. fig. 8.) 
Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, with the apex and a band beyond the cell crossing the wing from the costal 
to the inner margin dark brown, a very dark brown tuft of scales in the cell, and a fine zigzag black 
suomarginal line extending from the costal margin to the anal angle, the marginal line spotted with 
black; secondaries pale fawn-colour, semihyaline at the base and along the inner margin: antennz and 
palpi black; the head, thorax, tegule, abdomen, and legs pale fawn-colour. Expanse 1} inch. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One specimen. Allied to D. eavtensa, Walk. 
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