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135. Neomiresa uesea. 



Phalcena {Bomhyx) nesea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 

 pi. 305, fig. C. (1782). 



PhalcBiia (^Bombyx) vidua, Sepp, Surin. Vlind. i. 

 pi. 6 (1848). 



Nyssia fumosa, Walker, Lep. Het. v. p. 1134 

 (1855). 

 Rio Purus, above Arunian, 9tli September, 1874. 



Natada, Walker. 



136. Natada sericea, n. sp. 



Wings above silky wliity-brown ; primaries from near 

 the base to the middle mottled with tawny ; costal margin 

 taAvny ; abdominal area of secondaries hairy ; body rather 

 redder than the wings; antennas white with greyish-brown 

 pectinations; under surface paler, wings sericeous, pri- 

 maries slightly reddish towards the base ; front of pectus, 

 femora and tibiae reddish : expanse 1 inch. 



Amazons (exact locality and date obliterated). 



This species has the mottled shining character of the 

 species of Redoa. 



Talima, Walker. 



137. Talima latescens, n. sp. 



Allied to T. postica, from which it differs in its broader 

 wings, the more uniform gravel-red coloration of the 

 primaries and body ; outer border of primaries slightly 

 lilacine, wider, limited internally by a slightly concave 

 but nearly straight oblique chocolate-brown line jjaraUel 

 to the outer margin ; a black discocellular dot ; secondaries 

 sandy-yellow instead of white, with lilacine brownish in- 

 ternal streak extending nearly to the base ; thorax washed 

 at the sides with lilacine ; abdomen tinted with lilacine 

 from the second segment, pale at the sides ; anterior tibiae 

 and tarsi yellow, femora of second pair of legs whitish, 

 remainder of legs purplish-brown above, ochreous below, 

 venter sericeous wdiitish : expanse 22 millimetres. 



Boaventura, Rio Jutahi, 24th January; Rio Jutahi, 

 5th February, 1875. 



