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glistening ; wings Avith a few minute marginal black dots 

 at the ends of the veins, connected on the pi'imaries by a 

 slender vindulated marginal brown line ; fringe spotted 

 with greyish: expanse of wings 10^ lines. 

 On board the Yeamiaba, 11th August, 1874. 



Dyops, Guenee. 



33. Dyops ocellata. 



Pkalcena {Noctua) ocellata, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 

 pi. 276, fig. E (1782). 

 On board the Yeamiaba, 29th March ; Abacaxis village, 

 12th May, 1874; Rio Solimoes, 8th January; Manaos, 

 11th February, 1875. 



This very beautiful bronze-tinted s])ecies is certainly 

 not congeneric with D. liatvey and D. conjiigens, the 

 latter are long-winged insects, with short and thick palpi. 



Family PLUSIID^. 

 Plusia, Ochsenheimer. 



34. Plusia includens. 



Plusia includens, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 914, 

 n. 59 (1857). 

 Rio Madeira, East bank, 5" 50' S., 18th and 23rd May, 

 1874. 



Since mistakes are best corrected as soon as discovered, 

 I may here observe that Walker's P. invicta, from Borneo, 

 is a Limacodid of the genus Phrixolepia. 



Basilodes, Guenee. 



35. Basilodes semicuprea. 



Plusia (?) semicuprea, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. 

 p. 1787 (1858). 

 Rio Jutahi, 23rd January, 1875. 



Atthough this s])ecies has the coloration of a Plusia, 

 its structure is similar to that of B. pepita, as shown in 

 M. Guenee's figure. 



The type is a worn example without a locality. 



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