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ion. Heterephyra fuscidiscaria. 



Foren-inqs : dull brownish testaceous, with a slight olive tint, darker, somewhat 

 pnrplish, towards hiiidmargin : the lines purplish, obscure ; first at one-fourth, 

 vertical, bent below costa ; median shade bent slightly round the cell-spot, which is 

 round and large, diflfusely filled with pnrplish scales and with a purplish crescent on 

 its inner edge ; outer line denticulate, at three-fourths ; a dark purplish marginal 

 line ; fringe brownish. 



llimlicings : similar ; the cell-blotch larger ; the ground-colour more rufous. 



Underside gilded yellowish, or yellow flushed with red : the lines and cell-spots 

 and costa of forewings brick-red. Palpi yellowish, externally bright red ; face 

 brown-red above, ochreons below; vertex brown-red; shoulders and patagia ochreons ; 

 thorax and abdomen much tinged with red-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 2s mm. 



Several ? ? from Santos (type) and Petropolis, Brazil. 



Near //. pcrspcctaria Wlk., with which it agrees in the markings, but the cell- 

 spots are wholly difi'ereut 



101. Hetereph3rra illimitata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull bnck-rcd, very finely dusted with grey, with three grey 

 lunulate-dentate lines, as in pcrsjvctaria "Wlk. : the first, at one-third, vertical ; 

 the second and third parallel to each other and incurved below middle ; marginal 

 area darker ; fringe coucolorous, without any trace whatever of marginal line or 

 spots ; cell-spot round, varying in size, pure white with a dark grey edge and some 

 blackish scales at centre. 



llini/icinyii : the same, without first line ; cell-spot always larger than that of 

 forewings. 



Underside uniform dull flesh-colour, with a slight bronzy yellow tinge. Face 

 and paljii above dark red-l)rown, pale>ochreous below; vertex, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen coucolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



Two c? c? from Paramba, Ecuador. 



Akin to (liscopiinctaria H. S., and perspectaria Wlk. ; distinguished from the 

 former by the total absence of marginal line or spots, and by the dark vertex ; 

 from the latter by the large round white discal spots ; and from both by the much 

 larger size. 



Hyriogona gen. nov. 



c? Fofcir/iifls : elongate, with curved costa; apex pnidnced; hindmargin oblique, 

 long, hardly curved ; inner margin heavily fringed. 



Hindwings : narrow, more or less elongated ; inner margin generally long, and 

 the anal angle produced, the hindmargin well rounded. 



Antennae of cf lamellate, shortly pubescent, tlie joints minutely angled and 

 spiked ; jialjii short, hairy beneath ; tongue and frennlnm present ; hindtibiae 

 thickened and tufted, without spurs ; the tarsi quite short. 



Xeuration: forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; first median at 

 three-fourths, second shortly before end of cell ; radials normal ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 



