March 1893. 



PSYCHE. 



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side of abdomen brown with a dorsal line of 

 white spots. Under side of thorax orange, 

 of abdomen gray, annulated with whitish. 

 Legs dark gray, margined with whitish. 

 Primaries dark orange-red with the apical 

 third black, and a large white subapical spot. 

 The secondaries are margined with black, 

 the band incised deeply opposite the cell. 

 The under side of the wings is as the upper 

 side but somewhat paler. Expanse, 33 mm. 

 The marginal band on secondaries is nar- 

 rower than in any other species thus far 

 described. 



64. T. minor, sp. nov. $. Antennae 

 orange with the pectinations black. Front, 

 head, thorax, and upper side of abdomen 

 uniformly dark orange-red. The under side 

 of the body, the collar, and the legs whitish. 

 The upper side of the wings is uniformly 

 dark orange-red, the outer half of the prim- 

 aries deep black, and the outer third of the 

 secondaries bordered with the same color, 

 the border diminishing from the outer angle 

 to the anal angle. The secondaries have a 

 conspicuous black discal dot at the end of the 

 cell. On the under side the inner margin of 

 the primaries is pale yellow, while the costal 

 area is of the same color as on the upper 

 side ; but the outer area, which is black above 

 is chocolate-red beneath, shading into black 

 before the inner area. The secondaries are 

 ferruginous, shading into orange upon the 

 inner margin. The black outer band of the 

 upper side is replaced upon the lower side by 

 chocolate-red. The black discal dot is as on 

 the upper side. Expanse, 28 mm. Habitat, 

 Benita. 



Otroeda, Walk. 



65. O. permagnifica, sp. nov. J. An- 

 tennae testaceous. Front white. Palpi black 

 margined with white below. Collar black 

 with a large white spot on the middle and a 

 smaller one on either side at the base of the 

 wings. Tegulae black margined with white. 



There are two white spots on the hind part 

 of the thorax. The upper side of the abdo- 

 men is orange-red with a heavy black dorsal 

 line and similar lines on either side. The 

 under side of the thorax is orange-red. The 

 legs are whitish margined outwardly with 

 black. The tarsi are black ringed with white 

 and the anterior legs have a small oval white 

 spot in the middle of the black margin of the 

 tibiae. The under side of the abdomen is 

 white with a ventral row of cuneiform black 

 spots. The primaries are bright orange-red, 

 inclining to fulvous near the costa. At the 

 base, there is an irregular black spot. The 

 costa at the base is narrowly edged with 

 black, then more broadly edged with the 

 same color, then again more narrowly edged, 

 and just before the end of the cell, this border 

 rapidly widens out into the broad apical black 

 area, covering the outer half of the wing. 

 The inner margin of this black area extends 

 in an irregularly curved line around to a 

 point upon the inner margin one fourth of the 

 distance from the outer angle to the base. 

 This black apical tract is interrupted by a 

 marginal band of large white spots increas- 

 ing in size toward the costa and preceded 

 inwardly by a series of large white spots run- 

 ning from the costa outwardly and terminat- 

 ing above the fifth spot from the inner angle. 

 On either side of the ends of the nervules 

 there is a narrow white line produced in- 

 wardly, recalling the marking which is found 

 upon the margin of the wing of Diadema 

 diiiarcha, Ilew. The secondaries are broadly 

 orange-red with a heavy black border inter- 

 rupted by a band of large submarginal white 

 spots and a marginal series of white mark- 

 ings similar to those upon the primaries. 

 The under side is marked as the upper side. 

 Expanse, 90 mm. 



This exceedingly beautiful species differs 

 very largely from any other species in the 

 genus in the style of its markings. It may 

 be worthy of note that in the large series of 

 specimens of Otroeda numbering nearly sixty 

 in my possession, I find many intergrading 



