22 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



ing the normal coloration and pattern of Xylophasia: 

 expanse of wings 1 inch 3 — 8 lines, 



Curimata, liio Jurua, 30tli October ; near mouth of 

 Rio Jurua, 14th November; near Santa Cruz, liio Soli- 

 moes, 9th December, 1874; Boaventura, Rio Jutahi, 

 24th January, 1875. 



Prodenia, Guenee. 



7. Prodenia inquieta. 



Xylina. inquieta, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 632, 

 n. 22 (1857). 



Prodenia strigifera, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1678 

 (1858). 

 Juruana, Rio Purus, 24th September; Curimata, Rio 

 Juruti, 30th October ; Barreiras das Araras, Rio Solimoes, 

 15th November; Rio Javary, 3rd December, 1874. 



Allied to ^' Laplitjgma^'' orbicularis ; also very close to 

 Prodenia ignobilis of Jamaica, but differing in the colour 

 of its legs. 



Dargida, JVallicr. 



8. Dargida singularis, n. sp. 



Primaries above fuliginous-brown, Avith a faint lilacine 

 gloss ; the margins of the discoidal spots a falciform line 

 below the cell, an oblique line angulated near the costa, 

 some dashes upon the apical third of costa, an oblique 

 apical line and the last branch of the subcostal vein pale 

 tawny (cupreous when viewed from the side); the ordinary 

 spots, and a discal series of irregularly-placed, tawny- 

 edged discal spots, blackish ; a transverse pale yellowish 

 line across the end of the cell ; a submarginal series of 

 dots, and an interrupted marginal line, black ; a marginal 

 series of white points, beyond which the fringe is crossed 

 by ferruginous dashes ; secondaries white, with broad 

 costal and external blackish borders; body dark brown, 

 varied with whity-brown and blackish; wings below much 

 palei', the costal borders tinted Avith pink ; discocellular 

 spots blackish ; an arched postmedian stripe on both 

 wings, ill-defined and interrupted upon the secondaries ; 

 primaries with the discoidal area greyish ; an irregular 

 whitish discal line ; secondaries Avhite, the costal area 

 pinky-brown ; a costal dash near the base ; an apical 



