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• 220. Cratoptera vilaria H.S., Anss. Sclim. fig. 330. 



Cimicodes primularia ? Drace, Biol. Centr. Am. Lep. Ilet. ii. p. 18. 



Cimicodes pi-imularia S Bruce, I.e., t. 42. f. 21. ab. 



Herrieh-Scliaeffer's figure represents, as Guende says, a pale yellow insect, with 

 no markings bnt the oblique line. Druce's primularia ? must be identical with it 

 But his S , which is tigured, having the doable brown spots of the marginal area 

 expressed, may be regarded as an aberration. Along with this form there comes, 

 both from S. Panlo and from Bolivia, a further aberration, which I call obscurata 

 ab. nov. from R. Tanampayo, Bolivia, in which the marginal areas of both wings and 

 costa of forewings are suffused with dull reddish brown, the apical area of forewings 

 however remaining yellow. All the examples of the two aberrations that I have 

 seen are S S ; it is therefore probable, though by no means certain, that the typical 

 paler forms are always ¥ ¥ . 



221. Cyclomia alternata sp. nov. 

 Foreivings : deep dull red, with a diffuse black cell-spot ; fringe red. 

 Hindwings : uniform deep yellow, the fringe reddish-tinged. 

 Underside dull yellow ; the costa and marginal area of forewings, and outer 

 half of hindwings reddish-tinged ; fringe red. Head, thorax, and abdomen red. 

 Expanse of wings ; 21 mm. 

 One ¥ from the Bahamas. 



222. Cyclomia bellula sp. nov. 



Foreivings : yellowish white, covered with fine trauverse purplish brown striae, 

 and with the lines of the same tint ; these are irregular in form, and shades rather 

 than lines ; first at one-fourth, broader on costa ; second broad and diffuse, just before 

 the middle, generally closely followed by a curved'line which joins it below middle ; an 

 outer line at three-fourths, bent below costa, and a submarginal irregular shade, the 

 two more or less united into a band ; some dark pnrplish dashes between the veins 

 along the margin ; fringe yellow, flecked with dark at apex and anal angle, and 

 with a broad dark blotch at the middle of margin. 



Hindwings : with curved antemedian, postmedian, and submarginal brownish 

 purple bands ; a darker blotch at apex. 



Underside similar, slightly less striated. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish 

 speckled with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 13 mm. 



One cJ from Carupano, December 1891 (C. W. Ellacombe). 



Allied to C.fulpimacula from Cliimbo. 



223. Cyclomia costipuncta ab. ocellata nov. 

 Differs from C. costipuncta Warr., in the dark costal spot being obsolete, and 

 the submarginal line being expanded into a sliglitly sinuous ochreous-fnscous band 

 with irregular dark edges at costa and on inner margin ; cell-spot a yellowisli, dark- 

 edged annulus. 



Hindwings and underside as in the type. 



Both wings are much speckled with dark on the upper surface. 



One S from Caicara, Orinoco, November ISUS (Uherrie). 



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