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Pedroso, Rio Purus, 25tli September ; Gepatlny, 29th 

 September; Mabadiry, 30th September: Uniciiri, 2nd 

 October; Ilha cuxmara, Rio Sohmoes, I3th October; 

 Rio Jm'ua, 31st October; Pupunha, 5tli and 6th Novem- 

 ber ; Prainha, 28th November ; near Sta. Cruz, Rio 

 Sohmoes, 9th December, 1874. 



Ph^GOPTERA, Herr.-Sch. 



63. Pha?goptera snbtihs, n. sp. 



AlKed to P. hreviuscula ; primaries chocolate-brown, 

 darker towards the base and in the discoidal cell, sprinkled 

 all over with whitish dots and with a distinct spot of the 

 same colour at the end of the cell ; secondaries semi- 

 hyaline white, becoming ochreous towards the abdominal 

 margin, a moderately broad greyish-brown border, very 

 broad but indistinct at costal margin ; thorax chocolate- 

 brown ; abdomen bright ochreous, with chocolate-brown 

 anal segment ; a row of four or five black spots on each 

 side ; primaries below greyer and less distinctly dotted 

 than above, secondaries with a moderately broad brown 

 costal border; body below brown, the sides and the 

 centre of pectus bright ochreous: expanse 1 inch 9 — 11 

 lines. 



Rio Sapo, 13tli and 14th December; Marapata, Rio 

 Negro, 29th December, 1874; Rio Jutahi, above Rio 

 Curnem, 29tli January, 1875. 



ECPANTHERIA, Huhner. 



64. Ecpantheria obliterata. 



? . Ecpantheria obliterata. Walker, Lep. Het. iii. 

 p. 691, n. 5 (1855). 



^ . Ecpantheria simplex, Walker, 1. c. p. 692, n. 7 

 (1855). 

 Barreiras de Jutahi, on grass, 14th February, 1874. 

 Closely allied to, and perhaps not distinct from, E. eri- 

 danus of Cramer. 



PSYCHOPHASMA, n. gen. 



Allied to Phcegoptera, but the palpi and antennae more 

 slender ; the upper discocellular (separated from the lower 

 by the false recurrent vein) shorter and less oblique ; sub- 

 costal five-branched, the first branch emitted immediately 

 before the end of the cell, the second from the upper 

 margin of the third which runs to apex, the fourth and 



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