4 ENTOMOCOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 



Dirphia picturata sp. n. 



$ . Head, collar, and thorax dark brown. Abdomen brownish 

 black dotted with white ; basal segment bright red ; fine reddish brown 

 segmental lines, anal hairs yellow brown. 



Fore wings : a dark brown oblique shade at base reaching antemedial 

 line on inner margin, the space above it lilacine buff mot- 

 tled with whitish hairs, limited by the antemedial line, which 

 is fuscous brown, finely pale, edged inwardly, vertical on 

 costa, outcurved and angled in cell, almost vertical below 

 cell, somewhat outbent on inner margin. Wing beyond brown shaded 

 with fuscous brown in cell ; an irregular white spot on discocellular, 

 containing a fuscous grey line following its outline, being narrow in 

 front and slightly inbent, somewhat constricted medially, and broader 

 behind ; beyond cell on vein 5 are two small white spots with grey 

 centers, almost suffusing; on one wing there are some small 

 dots on vein 6, and one on vein 2 near outer line; this line is fuscous 

 brown, slightly inbent from costa, followed by a pale brown and then 

 a lilacine shade ; subterminal fuscous brown spots connected by an 

 indistinct line; from vein 4 to 6 the spots suffuse with the terminal 

 shade which is dark brown, narrowing towards apex and tornus 

 which are filled with the lilacine shade. 



Hind wings brown shaded with red at base; hairs on inner margin 

 red ; a reddish brown spot on discocellular, pale edged ; a fuscous 

 brown postmedial and subterminal shade, the latter followed by a 

 lilacine shade. 



Fore wings below grey brown shaded with red on inner margin ; a 

 black discal point ; an outer lilacine shade, darker edged. 



Hind wings below lilacine to just beyond cell; a medial brown 

 shade ; a fuscous brown small spot ; terminal space brown ; a sub- 

 terminal lilacine shade. 



Ex. 62 mm. 



Hob. Joinville, Brazil. 



Automeris coronis sp. n. 



$. Head and collar dark brown. Thorax brown, shading to red- 

 dish brown behind, the patagia tipped with yellow buff. Abdomen 

 roseate brown, with very faint smoky grey transverse lines. 



Fore wings brown, darkest at base and beyond outer line ; antemedial 

 line remote from base, fine, fuscous outcurved to vein 2, and again 

 to submedian, marked with pale points on veins ; medial space paler, 

 tinged with grey, the discal spot very large, light brown marked with 

 two black points on inner edge, four on outer; a vertical brown post- 

 medial shade from costa to line, this latter fine, reddish brown from 



