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Hnulwinf/s bright chestnut red, with a bnif patch at tlic anal angle ami 

 a big black spot running into the wing from it. 



Head, tJiorax, and abdomen uniform lavender grey. 

 Exj)anse, 2"5 inches = ()3'7;j millim. 

 Uab. f 



Callioma ellacombei sp. nov. 



Male. — Foreidngs deep brown mottled with vinaceons grey ; stigma in cell 

 silver, and shaped like a mark of interrogation npside down, thns^. From the outer 

 edge of the cell almost to the centre of the outer margin runs a bar of black. 

 From the apex to the centre the outer margin is occnjiied by a large curved chocolate 

 patch, bordered on the inside by a line of vinaccous grey. 



Hindwinys, basal two-thirds bright yellow, bordered with a narrow line of Hery 

 red, very ill-defined ; outer third black, with a large chestnut patch near the apex, 

 and a vinaceous grey streak running into the black from the anal angle. 



Hi'dd grey. 



Thorax brown with grey centre. 



Abdomen grey, with three small black dots on third, fourth, and fifth segments. 



Underside, basal half of forewings orange yellow, rest of forewings and hind- 

 wings cinereous brown, with a number of irregular and faint transverse lines. 



Bod)/ grey. 



Femalk. — Similar, but forewings all brown except the silvery stigma and the 

 oblique black bar ; hindwiugs have the outer third all black, and the fiery red 

 band broader. 



Expanse, 2*T5 = 70-2 millim. 



Hab. San Domingo {fide Felder) aud Aroa, Venezuela. 



HEMEROPLANES. 

 Of this genus I have nothing to say, only to describe a new species. 



Hemeroplanes ornatus >ii. nov. 

 (PI. VI., fig. 9.) 



Very similar to H. triptolemus (Cram.). It differs from the latter in all the 

 markings being much accentuated ; and instead of being ])icked out in two or three 

 sober shades of brown, these markings are richly variegated with green, pink, and 

 chocolate. The silver stigma in the cell is much shorter aud rounder than in 

 //. triptolemux (Cram.). The two most striking differences, however, are : first, the 

 longitudinal central dorsal stripe on the abdomen in H. ornatus is green, while in 

 JI. triptolemus it is grey ; aud, secondly, 11. Iriptokmus has a golden ring 

 round each abdominal segment, while in //. ornatus these rings are absent, and 

 only rej)resented by three lateral yellow streaks on the second, third, and fourth 

 segments. I have added on PI. VI., fig. lU, a figure of //. trijitolemiis for 

 comparison. 



Exj)anse : nude, 3-25 inches = 83 millim. ; female, 4'u inches = 11 -j millim. 



Hab. Venezuela and other parts of South America. 



