28 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



Family ANTHOPHILID.E. 

 XANTiiorXERA, Gueitee. 



20. Xanthoptera botyoides. 



Xanthoptera botyoides, Guenee, Xoct. ii. p. 240, 

 1024(1852). 

 Pupunha, Rio Jm-iui, 1st November; Eio Solimoes, 

 19th December, 1874. 



I found several examples of this species in a supple- 

 mentary drawer with a MS. label in Mr. Walker's hand- 

 writing, bearing the name " Xanthodes cEneocincta;'''' no 

 description of the species occurs under tliis name in the 

 Museum Catalogue. 



MlCROPIIYSA, Guenee. 



2 1 . Microphysa fumosa, n. sp. 



Primaries smoky-brown, crossed near the base by an 

 angular black line ; a whitish-edged irregular black line 

 just beyond the middle ; a blackish dot at the inferior 

 angle of the discoidal cell ; a marginal series of fusiform 

 black dots ; a slender irregular oblique discal line from 

 the costa ; secondaries pale grey ; fringe of all the wings 

 smoky-brown with blackish basal markings ; head and 

 thorax blackish, abdomen greyish -brown ; posterior legs 

 above whitish ; primaries below slaty-grey; costal border 

 brown ; fringe sjjotted with brown ; marginal black dots 

 as above ; secondaries sordid white, with marginal black 

 dots ; discocellulars and an ill-defined discal line dusky ; 

 fringe brown, spotted with blackish ; body below pale 

 brown : expanse of wings 7 1 lines. 



liio Jutahi, 5 th February, 1875. 



The smallest true Microphysa known to me. 



Family PALINDIID^. 

 EULEPIDOTIS, H'ubner. 



22. Eulepldotis ilyrias. 



Phalcena ilyrias, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 15, 

 pL 10, fig. E (1779). 

 Rio Jutahi, 27th January; Barreira branca, Rio Jutahi, 

 3rd February; Santarem, 4th February, 1875. 



