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brown, with the Hues hardly visible, others pule with the lines quite distinct ; but 

 the undersides are little variable." This will help us to understand why the species 

 (at all events in the c? cj) has been so often re-described. Guen6e's clnrata represents 

 a cf in which the common line is pale and broad, and in which also the suhmarginal 

 white dots on the veins stand out clear. He says himself, " It has exactly the cut 

 of hispata." This last has the hne dark, marked on the outside with white dashes, 

 as in the ? , and not united to the dark apex; in brUesii Feld. the apex is dark, 

 and joins the line; alpiscaria Wlk. merely represents a particular form of hispata 

 Guen. The ¥, described only once, by Guene^e, as rjastropdch/ila, is \-ery differently 

 shaped and marked, but the underside will show its identity with the various forms 

 of the ?. f am not certain about the variety, so-called, oi gustropachalii, figured 

 by Druce. 



Microgonia olivacea sp. no\ . 



\ei\- \ariable. but distinguislie<l from vesulUi, Cram, by the much sharjier 

 subfaleate apes of forewings and the outward bulging of the hindmargin below the 

 subapical concavity ; the black blotch on the upperside of the hindwings never shows 

 through on the underside. Like vemdia, the vertex is white : in what I shall call the 

 type-form the basal and marginal areas are oli\e-green, the central area being reddish 

 ochreous ; a faint central shade round the black cell-spot ; the submarginal line is 

 denoted by dashes on the veins, sometimes black, at others white ; in a second form 

 the whole ground-colour is whitish ochreous, dusted and suffused with olive-green, the 

 suffusion being densest along the hindmargin and before the second line ; in this 

 form the second line, instead of being dark brown, is merely olive edged broadly with 

 whiitish ; a third form is wholly slaty drab, with the two lines and central shade dusky 

 olive ; in a fourth the marginal area is pinky drab, and the whole inner two-thirds deep 

 olive-green, deeper towards the exterior line; and again, in a fifth form, the whole 

 wing is dull olive, and the exterior line white. All these forms are c?c?. The only 

 $ is, like the last, wholly olive, with the exterior line dark. In all cases the hindwings 

 resemble the forewings, but have a large black blotch on the upperside on the costa 

 beyond the transverse line. The undersides differ considerably. In the ty])e-form 

 the basal two-thirds of forewings is dull yellow mottled with brown, the marginal area 

 being olive-brown ; in the others the whole under surface of both wings is nearly 

 uniform browu with an olive tinge, while in tlie 5 the whole sm-face is much mottled 

 with darker ; in all the forms the apex of the forewings is smeared with white, and 

 a curved exterior line is visible inside the upper exterior oblique line, starting from a 

 dark costal mark, and often denoted only by dark spots on the \'eius. The only $ is 

 of the same size as the S S , and as disticJiata Guen. 



8ix c?<?, one 5 , all from Jamaica. 



Microgonia reuipuncta sp, nov. 



Foreiviwjs : glossy, pale olive fawn-colom-, with faintly darker olive trans\-erse 

 striae; first line olive at one-third, vertically sinuous ; second line olive, edged with 

 paler, from two-thirds of inner margin direct towards apex, before which it is aliruptly 

 deflected to the costa, and becomes then dark chestnut-brown ; the pale line which edges 

 it is followed on the costa by a reniform spot edged with the same tint of chestnut- 

 brown, and filled up with ]in\p brownish olive; above the anal angle is an olive 

 suffusion. 



