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black ; tips lurid ; a white, oblong, raised spot along the middle of 

 the fore border ; hind-wings brown, pale gray towards the base. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



17. Proconia. plagiata. 



Jjutea, nigro vittata et fasciata ; abdominis discus niger ; alee 

 anticce picea, albo plagiatce, apice luridce ; alee posticcB fusca , 

 basi sublimpida. 



Luteous : head above with two short black stripes, which are 

 united in front and behind, and enclose an oval compartment which 

 emits four black rays towards the hind border ; a curved black band 

 on the fore border joins the three black stripes of the face, which is 

 marked with black towards the epistoma : mouth ferruginous : shield 

 slightly marked with black, pale on each side ; disk of the scutcheon 

 adorned with black stripes and bands, which form eight compart- 

 ments : disk of the back of the abdomen black : fore-wings pitchy, 

 lurid at the tips, adorned on the middle of the fore border with a 

 large, oblong, convex, white spot : hind-wings brown, almost co- 

 lourless towards the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the 

 wings 9 lines. 



18. Peoconia paeallela. 



Nigra, angusta ; caput fiavo bimaculatum ; abdomen atrum, late- 

 ribus ventreque Jiavum ; pedes Jlavi ; alee anticcB fusccB, ad 

 costampicece, apice albidcB ; alcB posticce subcinerece^fusco mar- 

 ginatce. 



Black: body linear, rather long: head more produced in front 

 than in any of the preceding described species, depressed on each 

 side between the eyes, pale yellow on each side along the hind 

 border: mouth pale yellow: scutcheon ferruginous on each side: 

 abdomen deep black, pale yellow along each side and beneath : legs 

 pale yellow: fore- wings brown, pitchy along the fore border, whitish 

 at the tips : hind-wings slightly gray, bordered with brown. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



