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stalked, the stalk given off" at the end of the 

 cell; veins 9 and 10 are given off from the 

 end of a secondary cell located near the base 

 above the lower cell. Type H. castanea, 

 Holl. 



15S. H. castanea, sp. nov. } . Palpi, 

 front and collar pale rufous ; patagia hoary, 

 whitish; upper side of thorax pale ochrace- 

 ous ; abdomen and legs rufous. The prim- 

 aries on the upper side are very pale reddish- 

 brown with the outer margin and the inner 

 margin near the base whitish. The wings 

 are marked by a broad chestnut red ray, 

 which runs from the costa at the base out- 

 wardly to the outer margin, where it is 

 widened covering the outer angle and the 

 inner margin for one-third of its length from 

 the outer angle. At the end of the cell, there 

 is a dark brown annulus pupilled with lighter 

 brown. There is a geminate waved sub-basal 

 and transverse limbal line. From the apex 

 a broad line runs inwardly terminating upon 

 vein 6. There is a submarginal series of 

 lunulate yellowish marks defined internally 

 by pale brown lines and outwardly on the 

 margin by very heavy dark brown lines. The 

 secondaries on the upper surface are pale 

 creamy with a dark brown patch near the 

 anal angle, and the fringes for one-half of the 

 distance from the anal angle are likewise 

 dark brown. The wings on the under side 

 are very pale yellowish-rufous, the markings 

 of the upper side reappearing very faintly and 

 indistinctly. Expanse, 63 mm. 



The only specimen of this beautiful species 

 which I have ever seen was bred from a 

 small, oval, dark brown cocoon, which was 

 found adhering to a leaf, and from which the 

 imago emerged April 27th, 1891. The insect 

 is apparently quite rare. 



Metanastria, Hiibn. 



159. M. porphyria, sp. nov. $ . Palpi, 

 front and collar dark brown ; patagia brown 



shading into purplish, hoary in certain 

 lights; the upper side of the abdomen is pur- 

 plish-brown; ihe under side of the thorax 

 and abdomen is paler. The primaries are 

 brown with a purplish white canescence. 

 They are crossed by a number of dark brown 

 lines, one running from the costa at the base 

 to the middle of the inner margin, the next 

 crossing the middle of the cell to the outer 

 angle, forked at the costa and connected with 

 the basal line about the middle and near the 

 inner margin by transverse branches. The 

 third line of the series is broad and does not 

 quite reach the outer margin at its outer ex- 

 tremity bifurcating along the median ner- 

 vules. The fourth line runs diagonally from 

 the costa toward the outer margin and is 

 slightly curved inwardly. There is a sub- 

 marginal series of angulated whitish mark- 

 ings, most conspicuous near the apex, which 

 is heavily clouded with dark brown. The 

 secondaries are pale brown with the fringes 

 whitish. On the under side the wings are 

 dark brown crossed by obscure median bands 

 of darker brown. The costal area of the sec- 

 ondaries is irrorated with purplish-white. 

 The light submarginal markings of the upper 

 side reappear faintly upon the lower side. 

 Expanse, 63 mm. 



160. M. {?) spargata, sp. nov. £• Palpi 

 pale chestnut margined externally with dark 

 brown; front pale rufous; collar brown, mar- 

 gined internally and externally with dark 

 brown patagia reddish; upper side of thorax 

 and abdomen pale rufous; legs ferruginous, 

 the tarsi black ; the under side of the thorax 

 and abdomen is rufous. The upper side of 

 the primaries is dark brown with the basal 

 area and a broad band running from the 

 apex to the inner margin pale ferruginous. 

 These areas are defined outwardly and in- 

 wardly by scalloped dark lines defined within 

 by pale yellowish-red shading into whitish 

 toward the costa. At the end of the cell, 

 there is a moderately large circular white 

 spot margined with dark brown. The fringes 



