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PSYCHE. 



[March 1S94. 



apex. The secondaries are pinkish, irrorated 

 with minute darker scales, traversed b_v a 

 fine regularly curved limbal line parallel to 

 the outer margin, with a pale discal spot at 

 the end of the cell, and a pale fuscous ray 

 running from the base to the outer margin 

 before the anal angle. The inner margin is 

 slightly paler than the rest of the wing. 

 Expanse, 37 mm. 



HOMOPTERIDAE. 



HoMOPTERA, Boisd. 



30. H. pulcherrima, sp. nov. J. Palpi 

 gray, margined below with black. Front and 

 upper side of thorax dark fuscous. Upper 

 side of abdomen fuscous, slightly paler on the 

 dorsal line of the three segments nearest the 

 thorax, which are banded on their lower 

 edges with blackish. On the lower side, the 

 thorax and abdomen are obscure fuscous. 

 The primaries are fuscous, in certain lights 

 reflecting a brilliant purple sheen. At the 

 end of the cell are two silvery white dots, one 

 above the other, the lower one which is the 

 larger is subtriangular in form. These spots 

 are located just beyond the upper and lower 

 extremities of the dark reniform spot, which 

 closes the cell. There are four silvery white 

 short transverse lines on the costa before the 

 apex, of which the outermost and the inner- 

 i#bst are the longest and most conspicuous. 

 There is a small black spot in the middle of 

 the cell. The wings are traversed by fine 

 irregularly curved basal and sub-basal lines. 

 There is a geminate transverse median line 

 running from the inner edge of the reniform 

 spot to the inner margin of the wing. A 

 looped limbal line runs from the innermost 

 subapical white linear spot on the costa 

 toward the inner margin as far as the first 

 median, where it turns abruptly upward, and 

 coalesces with the geminate median line near 

 the large white spot at the end of the cell. A 

 waved dark submarginal line runs from the 

 outermost of the subapical white spots to the 

 inner margin. It is margined externally 



with pale brown and lost in a dark blackish 

 cloud upon the middle of the outer margin. 

 There is a fine black marginal line accen- 

 tuated externally on the interspaces by narrow 

 pale brown lines. The fringes are dark brown 

 scalloped at the tips of the nervules. The 

 secondaries on the under side are dark fuscous, 

 paler on the costa. There are three parallel 

 incomplete transverse lines at the ana! 

 extremity of the inner margin. These lines 

 are margined externally by pale brown, or 

 ochraceous. On the under side, both wings 

 are gravish-fuscous ; both have obscure discal 

 spots at the end of the cell. The primaries 

 are crossed by a curved transverse limbal line 

 margined externally by pale gray. There is 

 a pale zigzag submarginal line and a fine 

 evenly crenulate black marginal line marked 

 at the middle of the interspaces by minute 

 white dots. The fringes are as on the upper 

 side, but paler. The secondaries are trav- 

 ersed by an irregularly curved transverse 

 median band very sharply defined and evenly 

 crenulate, a black transverse limbal line, and 

 by an equally sharply defined submarginal 

 white line composed of minute hastate mark- 

 ings located upon the interspaces. On the 

 margin there is a black hastate spot on each 

 of the interspaces, each spot enclosing 

 between the barbs a minute white spot. The 

 fringes are as on the upper side. 



5 . The female is considerably larger than 

 the male and more obscurely marked. Ex- 

 panse, $, 35 mm.; $, 4; mm. 



PANILLA. 



Paxilla, Moore. 



31. F. obscurissima, sp. nov. $. Palpi 

 brown. Front grayish. Anterior margin of 

 the collar pale gray ; posterior margin darker 

 gray. Upper side of thorax dark gray. 

 Upper side of abdomen fuscous. Lower side 

 of thorax and abdomen pale fuscous. The 

 first pair of legs have the tibiae dark brown. 

 The second and third pair of legs are pale 

 fuscous. The primaries on the upper side 



