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COSMOPHILA, Boisduval. 



45. Cosmophila erosa. 



Anomis erosa, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Sclimett. 

 Zutr. figs. 287, 288. 

 Serpa, iu the bush, 24tli April, 1874. 



Anomis, Huhner. 



46. Anomis grandipuncta. 



Anomis (jrandij)uncta, Gueuee, Noct. ii. p. 400, 

 1266 (1852). 

 Faro, 10th Aj^ril, 1874. 



Family AMPHIPYRID.E. 



Barydia, Gueuee. 



47. Barydia japeta. 



Phulcena {Noctua) Japeta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 

 pi. 346, fig. G (1782). 

 Manaos, on board the Guajara, 2nd September, 1874. 



Very incorrectly figin-ed by Cramer ; there are three 

 pale sandy-yellowish discal spots upon the primaries, the 

 uppermost one imited to a large black spot; even this 

 spot is incorrectly situated in the figure. 



Mr. Walker, not having seen an example of B. Japeta, 

 refers it, erroneously, to the genus Safia. 



Amphipyra, Oclisenheimer. 



48. Amphipyra purpurascens, n. sp. 



Dark greyish-brown, brightly shot with purple, spotted 

 here and there with bright green, and speckled with black; 

 basal fourth crossed by parallel undulated black lines ; two 

 widely divergent black-bordered pale brown stripes, forking 

 from the centre of the inner margin to the costa, the inner 

 one transverse, undulated, the outer one oblique, angulated 

 and zigzag : two or three zigzag interrupted black lines 

 just beyond and parallel to the outer stripe ; a clear yellow 

 longitudinal line from this stripe to the end of the cell, 

 ■where there are tw'o or three brown-edged black spots ; 

 four small white costal spots towards apex ; an apical pale 

 yellow spot streaked with ferruginous; a submarginal scries 

 of greyish-bordered bracket-shaped black litura^, connected 



