Bomhyces collected in Chili. 107 



Edmondsia sypnoides, n. s. 



Primaries above smoky brown, with the costal border, 

 discoidal cell, and veins iDroadly sericeous greyish black ; 

 two zigzag velvet-black parallel lines across the basal 

 third, and two more acutely zigzag across the disc ; 

 " reniform " spot indicated by a small patch of pale 

 brown scales in the female, but wanting in the male : a 

 submarginal series of black-bordered pale-brown lunate 

 spots, most distinct in the female ; fringe blackish, tra- 

 versed by two i^aler undulated lines ; secondaries smoky 

 brown, with the basal two-fifths sordid-white ; fringe as 

 in primaries ; a marginal series of pale-edged black 

 lunules most distinct in the female ; the latter sex also 

 shows three divergent abbreviated black lines running 

 from the external half of the abdominal margin to about 

 the centre of the disc ; thorax dull velvet-black ; abdo- 

 men pale brown at the sides, blackish in the middle ; 

 wings below sericeous smoky brown, crossed beyond the 

 middle by two arched ill-defined darker stripes ; outer 

 margin slightly paler ; fringe grey, with a blue-black 

 external edge ; primaries with white internal border ; 

 secondaries pale towards the base, and with a small 

 black spot at the end of the cell ; body below dull black ; 

 tarsi banded with white. Expanse of wings — male 

 47 mm., female 58 mm. 



Larva of Edmondsia Kypnoides, Butl. 



Larva. — Velvet-black, minutely speckled with white ; 

 head rather small and shiny ; second segment also small ; 

 third segment very full and large, with two large quad- 

 rate yellowish spots in front, and with two long black 

 divergent tapering subdorsal horns, filiform at their 

 extremities ; the fourth to sixth segments, which are 

 also very full, with a yellowish dorsal patch ; the second 



