( •'574 ) 



This cf answers the description of J/, conspicua ? Schaus, bnt is notliing like 

 that of the S, which is possibly a diiferent species. Of it I have seen two examples, 

 both <S S, from Popayau, Colombia. 



177. Microg'onia affinis Warr. 



The description of this species iu Noc. Zool. iv. p. 495, was made from tlie S. 

 In the ? , of which sex I have seen two examples only, the lilac tmts are 

 absent, being replaced by whitish, and the ground-colour is dnll olive, but this 

 iu the forewing only appears in the central space, the basal and marginal areas 

 being filled with black, partially confluent, striae ; beyond the outer line on the 

 inner margin is a ronndish blotch of the olive ground. The hindwing is almost 

 wholly blackish. The underside is darker, olive-fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 65 mm. 



Both examples were from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, June 10U2, 

 dry season (Ockenden). 



178. Microgonia particolor spec. nov. 



Forewing : yellow, mainly suffused with brick-red, the only yellow spaces 

 being a large blotch along costa beyond the middle not reaching apex, and some 

 irregular small patches in and below cell ; the yellow of the large patch is spotted 

 and blotched with red, the lines rather deeper red ; first from one-third of costa 

 to one-third of inner margin, bent and blotched iu cell, where it passes beyond 

 the yellow patch in the cell and between the two patches below it ; outer line from 

 three-fifths of inner margin, vertical to vein 4, then strongly curved outwards 

 to vein 7, where it is angled and shortly retracted to costa at three-fourths, 

 followed on costa by a white spot ; the inner line is preceded, and the outer 

 followed, by a pale slightly lustrous line ; in certain lights a pale lustrous blotch 

 is visible along hindmargin above anal angle ; fringe red. 



Hindwing : with the outer line nearly straight from three-fiftlis of costa to 

 two-thirds of inner margin ; cell-spot black, in a small yellow patch. 



Underside duller in tint, the yellow areas much larger. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs dark fuscous ; vertex, shoulders, and patagia 

 bright pale fulvous ; fillet narrowly whitish ; abdomen red. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



1 6 from Paramaribo, Nov. 1892 (C, W. Ellacombe), 



The yellow coloration is probably variable in extent ; I have seen an 

 exanij)le from San Ernesto, Bolivia, in which the whole wing surface above was 

 red. It is close to, and may be a form of rhodaria H.S., the type of Microgonia. 



179. Microgonia siccifolia Warr. 



The type is a ?, described in Nov. Zool. xi, p. 158. The $ is different, 

 brownish olive, instead of chocolate-brown, as far as the outer line, with the basal 

 area scarcely paler ; the outer line is marked by the difference in ground-colour 

 merely, the pearl-grey of the marginal space again becoming olive along the 

 hindmargin and fringes. 



The apex of forewing is only shortly produced, the hindmargin gibbous 

 below the subapical indentation. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 ? from Huancabamba, Cerro dc Pasco, Peru, 6000 to 10,000 ft. (Bottger). 



