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angularly excised in front; the silver patch beyond it 

 of little more than half the size ; the disc brightly shot 

 with purple ; the discal bands blacker, the inner one 

 much more arched, the outer one very wide in the centre, 

 with well-marked pale external border; markings of 

 secondaries darker, the patch above the caudal angle 

 smaller ; undersurface altogether brighter in colour : ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 

 Rio Jutahi, 27th January, 1875. 



28. Eulepidotis alabastraria. 



Noctua olahastraria, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. 

 Zutr. figs. 311, 312. 



Palindio testaceiceps, Felder, Reise der Nov. 

 Lep. iv. pi. Ill, fig. 16. 

 Rio Tapajos, 12th March, 1874. 



Phrygiomis, Huhner. 



29. Phrygionis corinna. 



PlialcBiin i^Noctufi) corinna, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. 

 p. 47, pi. 29, fig. H (1779). 



Paiindia crocoptera, Felder, Reise der Nov. 

 Lep. iv. pi. Ill, fig. 18. 

 Forest near Serra de Juruty, 31st March, 1874. 



30. Phrygionis dives, n. sp. 



Primaries above clay-coloured, tinted with violet, with 

 the base and costal border bright ochreous ; a short black 

 line, edged externally Avith metallic bluish-green across 

 the costal border near the base; an internally black-edged 

 green line crossing the wing at basal fourth, and followed 

 by a grey line ; a second very oblique grey line, followed 

 by a metallic green line near the middle of the wing ; 

 discocellulars grey ; three divergent grey lines across the 

 disc, the central one with green internal border; an extei'- 

 nally black-edged silver submarginal line ; two or three 

 grey marginal dots near the apex ; fringe whity-brown 

 traversed by three parallel slender brown lines; secondaries 

 ochraceous, imperceptibly shading into stramineous towards 

 the base and costa, and into clay-colour upon the median 

 interspaces, across the centre of these interspaces there is 

 a bifid greyish-bordered opaline spot ; a partially black 

 and Avhite-edged marginal orange spot on second median 

 interspace ; margin pale, Avhite near anal angle, externally 



