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certain that we have several good species among them. At 

 any rate, the form described by Say as Colaspis sexsignata, 

 which is very abundant on juniper (as already stated), never 

 occurring on any other plant and never exhibiting any note- 

 worthy color variations, is certainly a good species. How 

 many species we have among the other forms must be settled 

 by future observations. 



The following papers were accepted for publication : 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FROM THE GUIANAS. 



BY W. SCHAUS. 

 Safla caeruleotincta, sp. n. 



Female. Palpi laterally fuscous brown irrorated with whitish. Frons 

 brown. Vertex and collar dark reddish brown mottled with buff. Thorax 

 dark brown mottled in front with buff; some bluish scales on patagia. 

 Abdomen fuscous brown mottled with some pale scales; a darker trans- 

 verse shade at base followed by some white irrorations on a dark red- 

 brown shade. Fore wings chiefly dull steel blue; a fine and irregular, 

 vertical, basal, and antemedial line; costa medially shaded with brown; a 

 yellowish-brown shade at end of cell, forming the reniform, and beyond 

 it in angle of postmedial line, which is surmounted on costa by a darker 

 brown spot; a geminate, faint, medial line terminating in a large fuscous 

 spot above inner margin; reniform outwardly edged with fuscous; post- 

 medial outbent on costal margin, dentate and inbent to before reniform, 

 outangled on fold, inwardly edged with brown on inner margin; a dentate 

 whitish line outwardly edges the dark brown costal spot; an outer coarse, 

 brown-black line interrupted at vein 5, dentate between 4 and 3, preceded 

 by a dark shade below vein 2; subterminal dark spots inwardly shaded with 

 light brown, and connected by short streaks to a faint lunular terminal 

 line. Hind wings brown irrorated with dark red; costal margin, streak 

 below cell, and inner margin grayish brown; postmedial and outer line 

 dentate lunular, not reaching costa, the outer line heavily marked towards 

 inner margin, forming two lunules; veins terminally irrorated with blue, 

 especially veins 2-4; subterminal spots as on fore wings; the terminal line 

 more distinct. Wings below dark grayish brown; white shades on cilia 

 at vein 5. Fore wings; some white spots on costa towards apex; a dark 

 postmedial line. Hind wings somewhat paler; a medial and postmedial 

 line; a broad subterminal dark brown shade. 



Expanse, 42 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, Maroni River. 

 Barydia nigrescens, sp. n. 



Male. Palpi light brown shaded above with fuscous. Head and collar 

 mottled light and dark brown. Thorax paler brown. Abdomen grayish 



