38 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



by longitudinal grey clashes, with small rounded tawny- 

 bordered marginal black dots, the whole together making 

 a series of anchor-shaped markings : a marginal series of 

 Avhite dots at the ends of the veins ; fringe alternately 

 ferruginous and black ; secondaries pale smoky-brown, 

 w^ith a broad external darker border ; basi-costal area 

 silvery- wliitish ; fringe creamy-white, deep ferruginous at 

 anal angle; palpi and frons purplish-brown; vertex whity- 

 brown, with dark-brown line ; thorax and collar dark 

 brown, glossed with purple and spotted Avith black ; abdo- 

 men smoky-brown, Avith whity-brown basal tufts and a 

 dorsal tuft of dark greyish-brown close to the base ; pri- 

 maries below fuliginous-brown, with pale external border; 

 costa spotted, with pale yellow ; a pale yellow apical spot, 

 and two submarginal series of small pale yellow hastate 

 spots ; an ill-defined angulated darker central belt ; secon- 

 daries sordid white, with broad external fuliginous border ; 

 a series of marginal spots, and the fringe, pale yellow ; 

 basal area, excepting towards the abdominal border, 

 blotched with fuliginous-brown ; palpi and cox^ blackish ; 

 two antei'ior pairs of legs dark brown, varied with black ; 

 hind legs sandy-whitish, with a black spot at the end of 

 each joint ; venter pale sandy-yellowish, or Avhity-brown, 

 speckled with blackish, and with a black anal streak : 

 expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 

 Manaos, 6th January, 1874. 



General aspect of Barydia hnfo, but at once distin- 

 guishable by its shorter thicker palpi and narrower wings. 



Family Toxocampid^. 



Athyrinia, Hubner. 



49. Athyrma misera, n. sp. 



Greyish-brown, with a faint lilacine tint ; primaries 

 Avith Avhitish veins ; three irregular black costal spots, and 

 a large subapical patch, dotted with Avliite upon the costal 

 margin, notched externally and margined internally by a 

 black-edged pale line ; a pale pinky belt before the middle, 

 limited by two dusky-margined pale lines, reniform spot 

 outlined in Avhite upon a black patch, below it two dusky- 

 bordered tawny spots ; a submarginal series of black dots 

 and a slender black marginal line ; fringe Avhitish, tipped 

 with blackish; secondaries with a diffused dusky discal 



