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of fore wings. Fore wings pale smooth clay color, crossed by two 

 broad, vague, mesial white bands. Subterminal line inaugurated by 

 a brilliant wine-red, outwardly oblique, linear scale patch, partly 

 resolved into about three spots. A spot on internal margin. Hind 

 wings brilliant wine red ; the internal margin yellowish ; indica- 

 tions of yellowish mesial line and the fringes are also of this color. 

 Beneath the disc of primaries is of the same wine-red ; and the hind 

 wungs are crossed by lines and shades of the same color. Length 

 of fore wing, 10 mil. 



The markings of primaries recall Tamila Velaris. The fore 

 legs are wanting in the beautifully fresh example sent me by Prof, 

 Snow under the No. 871. Quite as handsome as R. Volnpia Grote ; 

 the red color is very rich. Tliis genus and Rhodophora contain 

 highly colored crimson or wine red species. 



Bessula. n. g. 



Clypeus full. Infra-clypeal plate projecting ; fore tibiie with 

 a claw on the inside at extremity of joint; a succession of three 

 stout spines outside ; all the tibiae spinose. Thorax untufted, 

 hairy. Antennas of male simple, ciliate beneath. Eyes naked. 

 This form differs from Pippona Bimatris, by the slenderer fore 

 tibiae which have a single stout claw- like spine on the inside; 

 whereas in Pippona^ which has the same characters, the joint is short 

 and broad and there is a double spine on the inside. The fore 

 wings are also not satiny in Bessula, which differs from Antaplaga^ 

 in the absence of the clypeal process, Avliile in that genus the pri- 

 maries are unusually produced. 



Bessula Luxa. n. s. 



(5 ? . Fore wings and thorax very light, whitish yellow, almost 

 white, hind wings white, immaculate, siTky. The fore wings have 

 a curved t. p. line of faint ochrey dots. Two faint cellular dots. 

 A dot or two in place of t. a. line. Sub-terminal line a succesion 

 of similar dots. All these dots are so faint that they are only 

 noticeable in my fresh female specimen. The male, somewhat 

 rubbed, appears almost immaculate. Beneath yellowish white. 

 Costa and apices dusky yellowish ; the s. t. line indicated over costal 

 region as a vague, dark shaded mark. 



Exp. $ l5, ? 30 mil. No. 873. 



The yellow color is still fainter than in Oxylos Citrinelhis. 

 This species, especially the female, has a certain false air of Pareii- 

 cJiaetcs. 



Eiidryas. Boisd. 



The clypeus, wings, feet and antennae give good generic char- 

 acters in the moths. If it were necessary to show the complete 

 want of anything like anatomical study on the part of Mr. Strecker, 

 it would be only necessary to point to his reference of Ciris and 

 Copidryus Gloveri to the genus Eiidryas. The three genera 

 Eudryas, Copidryas and Eitscirrhoptems are abundantly distin- 

 guished by the structure of the front and of the wings. The clypeus 



