revision of the LamipyridcE. 13 



Alas.'i — Pygidio margine apicali tridentato. (Plate, 

 %• 7.) 



Closely allied to A. despecta, but the abdomen is yellow, 

 and the wings are pale, and the antennas are simply serrate, 

 not, as in that species, almost pectinate. 



Irazu, Costa Rica. 6,000 to 7,000 ft. alt. ; coll. God- 

 man and Salvin. 



jTlthra hrunnipennis , n. sp. 



Nigra, subnitida, elytris brunneo-flavis, thorace canali- 

 culato, semicirculari. 

 Long. lin. 4^. 



Allied to the preceding, and of the same form and size, 

 but with the body entirely black, the elytra alone being 

 yellow. 



Hob. ? — Brus. M. ; a single specimen. 



Yesta, Castelnau Essai, p. 133. 



Type, V. Chevrolatii. 



I think it will be better to retain this name for the 

 Eastern species. The sixth ventral segment is produced 

 into a small tooth-like lobe in its centre, which overlies a 

 seventh lobe-like segment. I have only seen one specimen 

 that I can consider to be a female of this genus, viz., one 

 of V. Saturyialis, in this the abdomen is very wide, the 

 sixth segment angularly elevated in the middle, the 

 seventh is triangularly cut out. 



Vesta Chevrolatii, Cast. loc. cit. 

 Java; Brus. M. ; Chevrolat ; Gorh. $. 



Vesta Saturnalis, n. sp. 



Nigro-picea, prothorace, elytris abdominisque segmentis 

 sexto et septimo brunneo-flavis, thorace disco canaliculato, 

 margine laterali reflexo angulis posticis acutis. 



Long. lin. 10— IL 



Mas. — Segmento sexto ventrali acuminato producto. 

 Femina. — Eodem leviter emarginato, septimo triangu- 

 lariter exciso. 



Rather larger and wider than V. Chevrolatii. Thorax 

 and elytra ochreous-yellow, the disc of the former a little 



