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oblique, smoky brown, terminating at more than half an 

 inch fi-om the apex, bordered internally by a diffiised 

 ■ ferri^ginous belt, which expands gradually towards the 

 costa ; apical area washed with the same colour ; a broad 

 but indistinct irregular outer border very slightly paler 

 than the ground colour, a grepsh patch edged with a few 

 dusky dots at the end of the cell ; secondaries slightly 

 greyer, with the ocellus large, sooty grey, with a central 

 black spot crossed by an oblique white line, surrounded 

 by a dull black border, followed by a broad diffused 

 ochraceous zone ; discal line black, semicircular, not un- 

 dulated, followed by a greyish semicircular belt ; thorax 

 pale chocolate-brown, abdomen testaceous ; under surface 

 of a slightly more sandy tint than above ; primaries with 

 a dull black-bordered, white-pupilled grey centi-al ocellus ; 

 discal line diffused, greyish ; secondaries with a white spot 

 at the end of the cell : expanse 3 inches 1 1 lines. 



Serpa, in the bush, 24th April, 1874. 



Allied to A. palecjon of Boisduval, and apparently in 

 some respects resembling A. orestes of the same author. 



Family BOMBYCID^E, Stephens. 

 Genus Asthenia, Westwood. 



144. Asthenia lactucina. 



Phalana ( Geometra) lactucina, Cramer, Pap. 

 Exot. ii. pL 133, fig. C. (1779). 

 Mouth of Rio Urupuana, Rio Madeira, 4th June, 1874. 

 This genus bears a striking resemblance to the Geometrid 

 genus Micronia. 



Genus Perophoka, Harris. 



145. Perophora Trailii, n. sp. 



2 . Allied to P. Batesii, but smaller and greyer ; the 

 transverse oblique elbowed line darker and distinctly 

 bordered externally by a Avhitish stripe ; primaries with an 

 oblique hyaline-white discocellular fasciole ; secondaries 

 with the margin sinuated, fringe very short : expanse 

 1 inch 10 lines. 

 Ilha Cuxinara, Rio Solimoes, 13th October, 1874. 



146. Perophora Bactriana, n. s]^. 



Allied to P. strigipcnnis and P. hamata ; sericeous 

 pale reddish-brown, irrorated with blackish, with the 

 usual oblique elbowed line dark grey ; fringe reddish- 

 brown, intersected l)y a darker line ; primaries with an 



