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black line along their base; underside with two or three transverse black streaks towards the apex, and 
two or three small costal streaks preceding them, Abdomen orange. Legs pale orange ochreous, tarsi 
banded with black. 
Type 3 (62319, Para); 2 (62320) Santarem, Mus. Wism. BM. [PT. (5405) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Panama: cutrieur: Tolé, I. 1883 (G. ¢. 
Champion). South America—Frencu Guiana: Nouveau Chantier, V. (£. Le Moult)— 
Braziu*: Para’: Para (H. W. Bates)", 23. KX. 1892 (A. Schulz), X. 1884 (J. A. 
Leech); Apehu, 31. X. 1892 (A. Schulz); Ourem, 30.1. 1894 (A. Schulz): smazons 
(4. R. Wallace)*. Twelve specimens. 
This is one of the most remarkable instances I have ever met with in which the 
general appearance and markings of two distinct species are so absolutely deceiving. 
The slight differences noticed in the above description are perfectly consistent 
throughout a series of twelve specimens from various localities in which the closely 
allied fuesslyana Stoll. (twenty-one specimens) also occurs. In their flight they must 
be inextricably mixed, but I have seen no intermediate varieties and the genital 
appendages of the ¢ are not alike. ‘The black palpi and the disconnected subapical 
metallic streaks at right angles to each other are the two points in which durranti 
consistently differs from fuesslyana Stoll, which has yellow palpi and a curved 
subapical line. 
(Two specimens recorded by Walker as fuesliniana belong to durranti—(f, Para, 
H. W. Bates) and (7, Amazons, A. Rk. Wallace). 
Mictopsichia superba F. & R. [Reise Nov. Zool-Lp. 2 Pf. 188 +23 (1875) Amazons, 
Type 2 (1913: 86) Roths. Coll. (4dr. Coll.) BM] is closely allied to durranti, but has 
yellow palpi like fuesslyana Stoll; Mictopsichia renaudalis Stoll [Phalaena Pyralis 
renaudalis Stoll Sppl. Crmr. Pap. Exot. 42 Pf. 8:7 (1787) Surinam | is a fourth species 
of this group, if the figure is reliable. Drnt.] 
3. Mictopsichia godmani, sp. n. 
Antennae pale ochreous, faintly barred with blackish above. Palpi pale ochreous. Head pale ochreous. 
Thorax dull leaden grey, streaked at the sides with coppery red; the tegulae coppery red, margined with 
‘shining steel-blue; underside white. Forewinys deep coppery red, mottled and streaked with shining 
steel-blue, alternating with orange and a little black; the costa is narrowly pale orange, blending to 
deeper orange before the middle, and marked with about eight blackish costal spots, the one on the middle 
being longer than the others ; from the base, to about one-fourth, a pale orange-yellow streak runs along 
the upper edge of the cell, margined on either side by steel-blue, of which there is also a short transverse 
streak beyond its apex and another below its apex, the latter obliquely reaching the flexus ; along the 
dorsum the coppery red ground-colour is speckled with black and pale steel-blue, some bright orange 
red spots appearing among the deep black which precedes a steel-blue spot before the tornus ; radiating 
from the direction of the tornus, but commencing only on a level with the lower edge of the cell, three 
bright steel-blue bands radiate toward the costa, but do not quite reach it, their course slightly curved— 
the inner one of these touches the median black costal spot, the rich coppery red ground-colour 
preceding it and containing a shorter steel-blue streak ; between the first and the second bard the 
ground-colour becomes pale orange, between the second and the third it reassumes the coppery red, 
while beyond the third it is again pale orange, the apex being eoppery red; two small steel-blue spots 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., November 1914. Qrr 
