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PSYCHE. 



[February 1S93. 



followed by a black band, and this is suc- 

 ceeded by a crimson band and the end of the 

 abdomen is bright shining green. The wings 

 are translucent. The primaries have the 

 costa and the outer margin narrowly mar- 

 gined with black, and the inner margin more 

 heavily margined with the same color, the 

 border here being produced in the direction 

 of the cell about the middle of the margin. 

 The discocellular and the radial are heavily 

 marked with black. The secondaries on the 

 costa are heavily, and on the outer and inner 

 margins narrowly, bordered with black. 

 Expanse, 22 mm. 



Syringura,* gen. nov. 



Allied to Syntomis. Palpi exceedingly 

 minute, appressed, the terminal joint porrect. 

 Haustellum half as long as the body. An- 

 tennae long, terete, swollen before the tip, 

 pointed. Tibiae without spines. Abdomen 

 cylindrical, stout, with the last segments 

 compressed and forming a short, narrow, 

 tubiform appendage. Anterior wings pro- 

 duced, subtriangular, with the costa rounded 

 at base, very slightly concave at the middle, 

 and curved before the apex. The apex is 

 pointed and the exterior margin moderately 

 convex. The posterior wings are elliptical 

 with the outer angle acute. The anterior 

 wings are ornamented with transparent 

 spots. Type .S. uranopetes, Holland. 



22. S. uranopetes, sp. nov. $ . Antennae 

 black, margined with white on the lower 

 side for a short distance before the tips, 

 which are black. The entire body and legs 

 are blue-black. The wings are black glossed 

 with brilliant morpho-blue. The anterior 

 wings on the upper side are ornamented with 

 three moderately large spots arranged in a 

 triangle beyond the middle of the wing, one 

 on the end of the cell, another just below the 

 extremity of the cell, both hyaline, the third 

 before the apex inlaid with brilliant blue 



*2vpi\£ fc= tuba, Ovpa = Cauda. 



scales. The basal area of the secondaries is 

 hyaline. The lower side of the wings is 

 much as the upper, save that there is a sub- 

 quadrate spot of bright blue on the costa of 

 the secondaries before the outer angle. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. 



Melisa, Walk. 



23. M. grandis, sp. nov. J. The prim- 

 aries above are deep black shading on the 

 outer half into deep violet-blue, which in 

 certain lights reflects a green lustre. The 

 secondaries are uniformly deep blue-black. 

 Upon the under side both primaries and 

 secondaries are uniformly deep black. The 

 antennae, the thorax above and below, and 

 the upper side of the abdomen are black, as 

 are also the coxae and trochanters. The 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi are pink, the lower 

 side of the abdomen is luteous, tinged with 

 pinkish near the thorax, the end of the abdo- 

 men is furnished with a large brush of 

 crimson hairs. The black segments of the 

 abdomen have the position of the spiracles 

 indicated by minute yellow spots, and the 

 third, fourth, fifth, and sixth segments from 

 the thorax each have in addition two large 

 yellow spots, one on either side. Expanse, 



55 mm - 



There is a specimen of this species in the 

 British Museum unnamed. 



ARCTIIDAE. 



Apisa, Walk. 



24. A. cinereo-costata, sp. nov. $ . Very 

 near A. canesceus, Walk., but differs in being 

 smaller, and in having the costa of the 

 primaries narrowly bordered with brown. 

 The posterior wings are also pure white, 

 which they are not in.4. canescens, the type of 

 which I have compared with the species 

 before me. Expanse, 25 mm. 



25. A. cana, sp. nov. (J. Uniformly 

 pale slaty grey, with the upper side of the 



