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PSYCHE. 



[October 1S93. 



son ; upper side of abdomen with the somites 

 bluish-green, heavily bordered on their hind 

 margins with crimson. The lower side of 

 the thorax and abdomen is crimson with the 

 legs bluish-green. The primaries on the 

 upper side are smoky-brown with the outer 

 angle laved with ferruginous. There is a 

 subtriangular hyaline spot in the cell on 

 its upper margin before the discocellulars. 

 There is a subovate larger hyaline spot 

 below the cell near the origin of the first 

 median nervule and a curved transverse 

 series of four hyaline spots beyond the cell, 

 the largest situated between veins five and 

 six. The secondaries are uniformly bright 

 orange-red. On the lower side, the prim- 

 aries have the costa crimson and the inner 

 margin broadly orange-red, shading up- 

 wardlv into crimson with the apical half 

 maroon. The secondaries are as on the 

 upper surface. Expanse 70 mm. Habitat 

 Liberia. 



I name this magnificent species in honor 

 of Mr. George Ehrmann, of Pittsburgh, 

 whose interest in entomological matters is 

 well known, and to whom I am indebted for 

 the type. 



LIPARIDAE. 

 Aroa, Walk. 



185. A. omissa, sp. nov. $ . Body and ap- 

 pendages argillaceous; abdomen with a 

 number of small tufts of black hairs on the 

 dorsal line. Primaries argillaceous sprinkled 

 with minute darker scales, with a black sub- 

 basal dot near the costa, a large subquadrate 

 black spot at the end of the cell, and above it 

 on the costa two small subtriangular black 

 spots. The secondaries are creamy-white 

 with a dark gray discal spot and a series of 

 similar transverse spots near the anal angle. 

 On the under side, both wings are creamy- 

 white, both have conspicuous gray, discal 

 spots, and the markings of the secondaries 

 near the anal angle reappear from the upper 

 side. 'Expanse, 22 mm. 



NOTODONTIDAE. 



desmeocraera, Wallengr. 



186. D. (?) hinnula, sp. nov. $ . Front 

 brownish ; upper side of thorax and abdomen 

 pale greenish-brown with some dark spots 

 upon the dorsal line of the abdomen; legs 

 brown; under side of abdomen pale fawn. 

 Primaries dark wood-brown interrupted by a 

 curved crenulate narrow greenish-yellow 

 transverse limbal band about the middle of 

 which a narrow greenish-yellow ray reaches 

 outwardly to the margin. On either side of 

 this pale band are two very fine dark brown 

 lines, conformed to the convolutions of the 

 band. In addition the wing is ornamented 

 by a very fine curved and denticulate 

 basal and sub-basal line. There is a linear 

 dark brown discal mark at the end of the cells 

 The fringes are pale greenish-gray minutely 

 checkered with dark brown at the tips of the 

 nervules. The secondaries are uniformly 

 fuscous. The under side of both wings is 

 fuscous, the primaries paler on the costa and 

 traversed by an obscure, curved transverse 

 limbal band. Expanse, 34 mm. 



I refer this inconspicuous and obscurely 

 colored bombycid provisionally to Desmeo- 

 craera, to which it apparently comes nearer 

 than to any other genus known to me. 



Scrancia, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Gargetta, Walk., from 

 which it differs in that the antennae in the 

 male are simple from beyond the middle to 

 their tip, the pectinations being confined to 

 the basal half (whereas in Gargetta they 

 extend to the tip) ; in the female the 

 pectinations at the base are almost obsolete. 

 Furthermore, in the primaries veins 10 and 

 11 have their origin relatively nearer the base 

 of the cell than in Gargetta, and the areole 

 at the upper angle of the cell is much 

 larger. The brush of hairs at the basal 

 extremity of the inner margin of the prim- 

 aries, which is characteristic of Gargetta, is 



