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PSYCHE. 



[February 1893. 



which I have compared it, but widely dif- 

 ferent. The front and collar are pale orange. 

 The thorax, abdomen, and legs are pale red- 

 dish-fawn. The anterior wings are pale fer- 

 ruginous with a double series of irregular 

 spots before the base, a zigzagged transverse 

 median, and a greatly zigzagged transverse 

 limbal band, a spot at the end of the cell, 

 and a submarginal series of spots, all pale 

 purplish. The posterior wings are semi- 

 diaphanous, very pale fuscous. The under 

 side of the wings are without markings, save 

 that the bands in the primaries very faintly 

 reappear. The female is larger than the 

 male and with the spots and bands in the 

 primaries darker, and the ground color of 

 these wings redder. 



Expanse, J , 20 mm. ; $ , 25 mm. 



Miltochrista, Hiibn. 



50. M. numida, sp. nov. $. The front 

 white. The body pale yellowish-fawn. The 

 legs yellowish with the tibiae provided with 

 heavj' black tufts before the tarsi. The an- 

 terior wings are pale stramineous tinged in 

 some specimens with reddish towards the 

 apex. At the base there are three small 

 black spots. There is a very heavy black 

 spot at the end of the cell. A series of heavy 

 irregular black spots form a transverse me- 

 dian band curved outwardly and coalescing 

 about the middle of the wing with a similar 

 band, which forms with a still heavier sub- 

 median band an irregular circle, surrounding 

 the black spot at the end of the cell. There 

 are two submarginal black spots about the 

 middle of the outer margin. In some speci- 

 mens these coalesce with the heavy submar- 

 ginal band. The posterior wings have some 

 black spots on the outer margin, heaviest 

 near the outer angle. The markings of the 

 upper surface reappear upon the lower side 

 of the wings, but fainter and poorly defined. 

 The posteriors have a double series of black 

 spots near the outer angle on the outer mar- 



gin. The female is marked as the male but 

 with broader wings. 



Expanse, $ , 16 mm. ; $ , 18 mm. 



51, M. Clara, sp. nov. $. Allied loan 

 unnamed species in the British Museum from 

 Sierra Leone. Pale cream color. The pos- 

 terior wings immaculate. The anterior 

 wings with a small black spot at the base, 

 three similar spots forming a transverse series 

 beyond the base, one of the spots on the 

 costa, another near the middle of the wing, 

 and the third on the inner margin. There is 

 a transverse, zigzagged, pale brown line 

 crossing the wing before the end of the cell ; 

 a minute black spot at the end of the cell ; 

 another somewhat broader, very irregular, 

 transverse brown line beyond the cell; and 

 a number of small linear black marks upon 

 the outer margin. 



Expanse, 16 mm. 



52. M. (/) erythrias, sp. nov. $. An- 

 tennae plumose, black. The body dark red. 

 Legs margined with black. Primaries dark 

 red shading into pale orange at the apex, and 

 the outer margin uniformly fringed with 

 dark brown. The primaries have a costal 

 and an interior black basal ray followed by a 

 double transverse line, which is succeeded by 

 a series of irregular, very angulated, and 

 heavy dark markings, which irregularly en- 

 circle the black discal dot, which is situated 

 at the end of the cell. These markings are 

 followed by a submarginal series of spots, of 

 which the third and the fifth, reckoning from 

 the costa, and those nearest the outer angle 

 are the largest, the fifth coalescing with the 

 fringe. All of the markings are dark pur- 

 plish-brown. The secondaries are rosy with 

 the outer margin dark brown. The under 

 sides are marked as the upper, but all the 

 markings are more obscure. 



Expanse, 16 mm. I refer this species with 

 great doubt to the genus Miltochrista, owing 

 to the heavily pectinated form of the anten- 

 nae. It represents, possibly, a new genus 

 closely allied to Miltochrista. 



