12t) 



PSYCHE. 



[June-Sept. 1S94. 



third joint is half as long as the second and 

 likewise tufted with hair and not lanceolate 

 as in the type of the genus. Save in the 

 form of the second and third joints of the 

 palpi, this insect is strictly congeneric with 

 D. lacista. The palpi, the front, and vertex 

 are dark brown. The upper side of the 

 thorax and abdomen are pale brown. The 

 lower side of the body is pale brown, inclin- 

 ing to rufous. The legs are concolorous 

 wiUi the tarsi ringed with whitish. The 

 primaries on the upper side are dark brown 

 with pale discal and reniform spots. The 

 wing is crossed beyond the cell by a narrow 

 dark line running from a little beyond the 

 middle of the inner margin toward the apex, 

 strongly retracted beyond the end of the cell 

 and terminating on the costa a little beyond 

 the middle. This line is defined outwardly 

 by a fine purplish-gray line from the inner 

 margin as far as the point where it is 

 retracted toward the costa. Beyond these 

 lines about the middle of the marginal area 

 is a large irregular whitish spot, which is 

 interrupted by a series of submarginal hastate 

 markings, which extends from the apex to 

 the inner margin about two-thirds of the 

 distance from the base These hastate 

 markings are defined inwardly by paler 

 hastate lines between the barbs of which are 

 blackish points increasing in size toward the 

 inner margin, where the last spot is large 

 and conspicuous. The margin is punctuated 

 at the extremity of the nervules by minute 

 white subtriangular spots. The fringes are 

 darker. The transverse limbal line of the 

 primaries is continued across the secondaries 

 as a transverse median line and the submar- 

 ginal series of spots of the primaries is 

 continued across the secondaries as a curved 

 limbal series strongly produced outwardly 

 on vein five. On the under side, both wings 

 are bright fulvous. The primaries have the 

 apex tinged with purplish-white and the 

 outer margin broadly laved with dark brown. 

 The transverse lines of the upper surface 

 . reappear upon the lower surface, but darker 

 and more sliarply defined. 



$ . Tlie female does not essentially differ 

 from the male, except that in the specimens 

 before me, the ground color of the w-ings is 

 prevalently lighter, inclining to fulvous. 

 Expanse, "<? and ? , 4S to 54 mm. 



Orixa, Walk. 



113. O. fascifera, sp. nov. $. Allied to 

 O. filifera. Walk., with the type of which it 

 has been compared, but distinct. Palpi dark 

 brown with the lower margin of the first 

 joint yellowish. Front pure white. The 

 upper'side of the thorax and abdomen dark 

 fuscous ; lower side of thorax and abdomen 

 pale yellow, the anal segment of the abdomen 

 being fuscous. Legs concolorous, with the 

 anterior margins of the tibiae dark brown. 

 The primaries on the upper side are black, 

 reflecting a brilliant blue sheen from the base 

 almost to the outer margin, which is bor- 

 dered with pale fuscous. A narrow whitish 

 line runs from the costa just beyond the 

 base diagonally to the inner margin, which 

 it reaches about one-third of the distance 

 from the base. This band in certain lights 

 appears bright blue. A little beyond the 

 middle is a broad white band with its inner 

 margin nearly straight and its outer margin 

 irregular. This band is broadest where it 

 crosses the median nervules and diminishes 

 rapidly toward the inner margin. Just 

 beyond it on the inner margin is a small 

 wliite spot. The secondaries on the upper 

 side are uniformly blackish. On the under 

 side the primaries and the secondaries are 

 dark fuscous. The primaries at the base are 

 narrowly marked with pale ochraceous. 

 The secondaries at the base and along the 

 inner margin are broadly laved with pale 

 ochraceous. Expanse. 33 mm. 



Elyr.\. Walk. 

 114. E. GahiniaUs. sp. nov. $■ Allied to 

 E. cachruHilh, Walk., with the type of which 

 it has been compared, but quite distinct. 

 Antennae heavily pectinated. Front black- 

 ish. Collar and upper side of thorax dark 



