collected in Chili. 349 



14. Tetrads cdmondsii, n. s. 



? . Primaries bright ochreous, crossed from apex to 

 outer two-sevenths of inner margin by a sKghtly sinuous 

 white Hne with testaceous inner edge ; a black dot at the 

 end of the ceh ; secondaries creamy white, washed with 

 cupreous -orange at anal angle, where the fringe is 

 blackish, remainder of the fringe tinted with cupreous- 

 orange at the base, and spotted with blackish at the 

 extremities of the veins ; an abbreviated sinuous orange 

 discal line, with snow-white outer edge ; thorax pale 

 ochreous, abdomen creamy white ; under surface pale 

 shining stramineous ; primaries with a purplish black 

 undulated line from apex to the middle of the interno- 

 median interspace, representing the stripe of the upper 

 surface ; fringe golden orange, with black dots at the ex- 

 tremities of the veins ; secondaries with a small spot at the 

 end of the cell, and a discal series dark brown, the latter 

 connected by an undulated ochreous line ; dark brown dots 

 on the fringe as above. Expanse of wings, 45 mm. 



" Valdivia ; from Keed's collection." — T. E. 



Allied to the preceding species, but unquestionably 

 quite distinct. 



Macrolyecea, n. g. 



Form of wings almost as in Lyrcea ; the primaries 

 being strongly angulated (much the same as in Sahulodes), 

 apex very acute; the secondaries narrow, the greatest 

 measurement being from base to apex ; antennae simple ; 

 body longer and far more robust, with the palpi much 

 longer, the terminal joint exposed ; aspect of Metrocanqxi. 



15. Macrolyrcea moesta, n. s. 



Primaries above reddish brown, sericeous ; the central 

 third occupied by a slightly paler and greyer belt, con- 

 tracted towards the inner margin, and bounded by the or- 

 dinary lines, which are dark grey ; the inner line irre- 

 gularly angulated, the outer one straight ; a black dot at 

 the end of the cell ; a white spot at outer fourth of sub- 

 median vein ; an indistinct zigzag line (obsolete in the 

 female) just beyond the central belt ; secondaries paler and 

 greyer than the primaries, the external half washed with 

 reddish or cupreous-brown in the female ; disc crossed 

 by three dusky lines, scarcely distinguishable in the 

 female, undulated, and relieved by vague whitish spots 



