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Itaituba, 1 5th March; on board the Yeamiaba, 11th 

 August ; on board the Guajara, mouth of Rio Purus, 

 6th September; Manaos, 7th September; Jurucua, Rio 

 Purus, 24th September ; Plyntanaham, 27th September ; 

 Rio Jurua, 27th October; Pupunha, 5th November; 

 Juruapuca, 11th November; Rio Tabatinga, 29th No- 

 vember; Marapata, Rio Napo, 31st December, 1874; 

 Boaventura, Rio Jutahi, 24th January ; Rio Jutahi, 5th 

 February, 1875. 



This apparently common species is new to the Museum 

 Collection. 



95. Ceromacra fuliginea, n. sp. 



$ . Fuliginous, primaries paler than the secondaries, 

 bronzy; an irregular dusky streak across the basal third, 

 an angular blackish spot on the discocellulars, and an 

 angulated dusky discal line a little beyond the cell; a 

 black subbasal spot ; a large sordid white apical spot ; 

 secondaries with whitish costal border ; head lilacine ; 

 anal tuft testaceous ; wings below pale sericeous greyish- 

 brown ; discocellulars dusky ; primaries with Avhitish 

 interno-basal border; body below whitish; tarsi above 

 blackish, banded with white : expanse of wings 2 inches. 



$ . Chocolate-brown, uniformly coloured ; markings of 

 primaries indistinct, apical spot small and obscure ; under- 

 surface fuliginous, the primaries with rather paler internal 

 border; discocellulars slightly dusky; tarsi above black- 

 ish, banded with testaceous : expanse of wings 2 inches 

 1 line. 



$. Lagas, mouth of Rio Negro, 5th August; $ , Sepa- 

 tiny, Rio Purus, 29th September, 1874. 



Before leaving the present family I may note that 

 Massava scissa of Walker is Isogona continua of 

 Guenee. 



Family FOCII<LIDiE. 



All Amazonian or New World forms, referred by Walker 

 to the first genus of this family (Zethes), may be placed 

 under Ephyrodes ; as, for instance, Z. quatiens, to Avhich 

 "Focilla" decolor is nearly allied. 



