26 Mr. A. G. Butler un the 



ramHy XYLINID.E. 

 MaGUSA, IValker. 



16. Magusa sti-iijifera. 



Maqusa strigifcra, AValker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 762 

 (1857). 

 Rio Jurua, 6th November ; Kio Solimoes, 9th Decem- 

 ber, 1874. 



The type from St. Domingo is rather faded. 



17. Magusa dissidens. 



M(i(/usa dissidens, Feldei', Keise der Nov. Lep. iv. 

 pi. 108, fig. 50. 

 Near Santa Cruz, Kio Solimoes, 9th December, 1874; 

 Coary, 11th January, 1875. 



Allied to M. orhifera {^Xylina orhiferii, AYalker). 



Nystalea, G tie nee. 



18. Nystalea squamosa, n. sp. 



Allied to N. superciliosa, much smaller, the primaries 

 less produced at apex ; primaries fuliginous-brown, with 

 darker discal hastate s])ots between the veins ; costal 

 border beyond the middle crossed by oblique black 

 dashes ; basal two-thirds, particularly near the internal 

 border, and the spots on external area, sprinkled with 

 lilac scales ; a central trisinuate black -edged red-brown 

 stripe from the costa to the first median branch ; reniform 

 spot pale, black-edged, white-bordered, bisinuated in 

 front ; two slightly sinuous oblique blackish lines just 

 beyond the cell ; a submarginal series of dusky spots, 

 black near external angle ; a marginal series of black 

 dots ; secondaries white, with broad dark-brown border as 

 in N. superciliosa; body dark brown, thorax sprinkled 

 with lilacine scales, abdomen with pale hind-borders to 

 the segments; primaries below sericeous fuliginous-brown, 

 with paler costal and internal borders ; secondaries Avhite, 

 with testaceous costal border and brown external border ; 

 body whity -brown, first and second pairs of legs fuliginous- 

 brown above : expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 



Kio Sapo, 12th December, 1874. 



The genus Nystalea seems to me to be quite as closely 

 allied to Notodonta as to Cucullia, and I think its Noctuid 

 character very doubtful ; the neuration does not help to 



