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Tyeissa., Walker. 



117. Tyrissa(?) laminata, n. sp. 



Pearly-greyish, the primaries mth the costal half washed 

 with chocolate, basi-costnl area of secondaries tinted with 

 chocolate ; numerous obli([ue white-edged black or choco- 

 late irregidar lines from the costal margin of primaries to 

 abdominal margin of secondaries ; fringe chocolate-brown, 

 costal border of primaries spotted with whitish ; under- 

 surface whity-brown ; wings crossed by rusty-brown 

 dentate-sinuate parallel lines ; external border purplish- 

 grey, interrupted in the middle on the primaries ; costal 

 border white, interru])ted by black and red-brown lines 

 and dashes : exjianse of wings 1 inch I line. 



Manaos, 11th February, 1875. 



Only one example was obtained. 



118, Tyrissa notiaphila, n. sp. 



AVings sordid sandy-yellow, in-orated with grey toAvards 

 the base, crossed by four equidistant parallel dark-brown 

 dentate-sinuate lines ; costal edge black, dotted with 

 white, external third irregularly slaty-grey, intersected 

 by an irregular undulated whitish line ; a marginal series 

 of black dots ; fringe white, dotted with grey ; secondai'ies 

 with the base white, a greyish curved submarginal grey 

 stripe, bounded externally by a zigzag whitish line ; ex- 

 ternal border whity-brown ; a series of black marginal 

 dots; body grey; primaries below greyish-brown, seconda- 

 ries white, with greyish-brown costal area; discoidal spots 

 and edge of outer margin black in all the wings, two 

 parallel angulated blackish discal lines, the outer one 

 white-bordered ; body below white : expanse of wings 

 11 lines. 



Ayrao, Rio Negro, 3rd July, 1874. 



A single specimen Avas taken at light during rain. 



Appiiadana, Walker. 



119. Apphadana liturata. 



Apphadana liturata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. 

 p. 1094 (1865). 

 Parentins, 2nd April, 1874. 



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