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belt ; several alternate pale and blackish lines towards the 

 anal angle ; fringe and margin as in primaries ; under- 

 surface fuliginous-brown ; wings with ill-defined darker 

 discal line ; fringe as above : expanse of wings 1 inch 

 4 — 5 lines. 



Itatoro, Rio Madeira, 2nd June ; Rio Funis, 8th 

 September, 1874. 



Baniana, Walker. 



50. Baniana projiciens, n. sp. 



Fuliginous-brown, the pi'imaries tinted with lilacine, the 

 costal border and external area whity-browu ; an oblique 

 quadrangular costal black spot near the base, a black dot 

 followed by a small black spot in the cell and a large 

 black internal patch, from the inferior margin of which 

 a flap of black hair scales projects over the cell of secon- 

 danes; these black markings Avith slender white margins; 

 reniform spot dark brown, with a black edge in the male, 

 Avhite Avith broAvn centre in the female, bounded internally 

 by a very irregular black postmedian line; a central 

 nebula surrounding the reniform spot and a subapical 

 nebula upon the costa, dusky ; an irregular bisinuated 

 discal dusky line ; a black marginal line ; secondaries 

 Avith whity-broAvn fringe ; frons whitish, vertex and collar 

 burnt-sienna red ; prothorax chocolate-broAvn ; under- 

 surface pale sandy-broAA'n : expanse of Avings $ 1 inch ; 

 $ 1 inch 2 lines. 



$ Aveyros, 12th March, 1874; 2 Rio Jutahi, 5th 

 February, 1875. 



P^SULA, Walker. 



51. Pfesula nigricollis, n. sp. 



Primaries pale sandy-broAvn, sparsely irrorated Avith 

 black ; an indistinct abbreviated transverse subbasal line ; 

 an irregularly-trisinuated testaceous line, interrupted by 

 tAvo blackish spots across the basal third ; tAvo black spots 

 on the discocellulars ; a series of black dots beyond the 

 cell, folloAved inmiediately by a straight mahogany-brown 

 line, with yelloAV internal edge, bounding internally a 

 broad and tolerably regular grey belt ; an indistinct 

 zigzag submarginal dusky line ; a marginal series of black 

 dots ; secondaries darker than the primaries, Avith broad 

 grey external border ; outer margin and fringe cream- 

 coloured ; a marginal series of black dots ; body pale 



