196 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



slightly gray; wiug-vibs and veins pitchy; scales pale tawny; poisers 

 yellow. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



South America. 



Philopota temperata, Mas. 



Fusca,Jlavo varia, antennis nigris, pedibus Jlavis, ails subcinereis. 



Body dark brown: head convex and adorned with a yellow mark 

 above the base of the feelers : breast and sides of the chest yellow in front ; 

 each side of the chest adorned ivith tivo oblique, yellow bands, of these the 

 front pair are short and approach very near each other on the back, the 

 hind pair are more remote and extend above the base of the wings as far as 

 each side of the fore border of the scutcheon ; above the latter are two short 

 stripes, and its sides and hind border are adorned with a yellow semicircle : 

 abdomen yellow beneath and at the tip ; hind borders of the dorsal segments 

 adorned with yellow bands which are interrupted in the middle, and become 

 successively narrower and less distinct from the base to the tip : legs 

 yellow : the other characters like those of the preceding species. Length 

 of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



South America. 



PARISUS, n. g. 



Phthiria affinis : areola \a posterior margine remota. 



Allied to Phthiria, but the first posterior areolet is closed at some 

 distance from the border. 



Parisus patebculus, Fem., Plate 5, fig. 8. 



Niger, albido-hirtus, seutello abdominisque apice fulvis, antennis basi pe- 

 dibusque flavis, alls alhidis. 



Body black, clothed with long whitish hairs: eyes black; all the 

 facets very small: sucker black, as long as the chest: first and second 

 joints of the feelers pale yellow : scutcheon tawny : abdomen obconical, 

 not longer than the chest ; tip tawny : legs yellow, long and slender : 

 wings whitish ; wing-ribs yellow ; veins tawny, yellow at the base and 

 along the fore border; poisers yellow. Length of the body 1^ line; of 

 the wings 4 lines. 



Cape. 



