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and enclosing a longitudinal streak. Behind the basal band is a sub- 

 triangular blotch, and on costa two small dots. The median and sub- 

 median bands are near together, parallel from internal margin to median 

 nervule, where they join and become confused, the median band broken 

 into blotches, and running forward to costa, the other reaching costa 

 more directly, and widening as it approaches it. The sub-marginal 

 band is narrow, widening near apex. Margins cream-color, enclosing 

 seven black spots, the apical largest. All these bands, as well as the 

 nervules, cream-color. Secondaries smoky black, the fringes and a 

 spot on costa, cream-color. Beneath, the markings are repeated a 

 little more faintly. i 9 . 



Exp. wings 45 mm. Length of body i8 mm. 



Except in the coloration, I see nothing to separate this from the 

 genus Ardla. 



Antarctia expressa, n. sp. — Primaries smoky brown, mottled with 

 dull white, especially along the course of the nervures. Secondaries 

 unicolorous, much darker than the primaries. Head and thorax smoky 

 brown; fore tibiae rosy red at the base, the rest of the legs smoky; 

 abdomen bright rosy red above, with dorsal row of small black spots, 

 dull black beneath. All the wings smoky beneath, a little reddish at 

 the base. i 9 • 



Exp. wings 34 mm. Length of body 14 mm. 



Elysius russatus, n. sp. — Primaries roseate brown, discal mark 

 ovate, white, placed behind the cell. At the base are eight orange 

 patches surrounded by a roseate ring. These are irregular in shape, 

 the middle three being fused into a band, the basal spot smallest. An 

 oblique dusky sub-marginal line. Hind wings bright rosy, palest in 

 the middle. Thorax orange-red, with three fawn-color streaks, and 

 two blotches of the same shade on collar. Head, palpi, pectus, tibiae 

 and abdomen bright rosy red; tarsi whitish. Beneath, the primaries 

 are rosy, the white discal spot very distinct, and a dull brown ovate spot 

 near the base. The secondaries are a little fainter rose-color than on 

 the upper side. i $ . 



Exp. wings 40 mm. Length of body 18 mm. 



This insect agrees with Walker's diagnosis of this genus (Lep. 

 Heter. B. M. p. 714), and appears to be allied to B. Sanguinolenta, 

 Cram., and D. Dorothea, Cram. 



Robinsonia perfecta, n. sp. — Closely allied to R. formula, Gr. 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, Plate 4, Fig. 3), but differs in having 

 the secondaries clouded with brownish along abdominal margin, and 

 by the abdomen being bright orange for its posterior half, and wholly 

 so beneath ; the pectus and base of all the legs are also orange. The 

 costal band of primaries is of nearly equal width to the apex, and the 



