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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, volume 

 IV, New York, 1888, contains a brief sketch of Titian Ram- 

 sey Peale, stating that he was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and 

 died in the same city, March 13, 1885. He was the son of 

 Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), artist and portrait 

 painter and founder of Peak's Museum*; Rembrandt Peale 

 (1778-1860), also a well-known portrait painter, and Raphaelle 

 Peale (1744-1825) were brothers of Titian R. Titian R. ac- 

 companied the United States Exploring Expedition under 

 Lieutenant Wilkes in 1838-1842, and was an Examiner in the 

 Patent Office at Washington from 1849 to 1872. 



New Species of Heterocera from Brazil (Lepid.) 

 By W. SCHAUS, London, England. 



Ormiscodes hortensia sp. n. 



$ , Head and collar dark brown. Thorax olive brown mottled with 

 light brown hairs. Abdomen brown red banded with black. 



Fore wings greyish buff mottled with olive brown scales, and with 

 some irregular fine fuscous horizontal streaks ; an indistinct darker 

 subterminal shade, expanding on costa into a better marked fuscous 

 brown shade ; a large triangular space medially on costa, dark olive 

 brown mottled with pale hairs, edged by a fuscous line inwardly 

 oblique from costa to below cell, rounded and vertical to costa, 

 slightly lunular outwardly and enclosing a fuscous streak on disco- 

 cellular. 



Hind wings bright brown on base and inner margin, shading to 

 darker brown outwardly and towards costa; a dark discal spot; a 

 fuscous brown postmedial line; a broad subterminal fuscous shade; 

 termen coloured like fore wings. 



Ex. 85 mm. 



Hab. Piassaguera, Sao Paulo. 



*Peale's Museum, a private enterprise, was also known as The 

 Philadelphia Museum and was an entirely distinct institution from 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences. Most of its contents were destroyed 

 by fire or scattered among various owners after a somewhat checkered 

 existence. 



