374 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



Var. albostriata. 



S . Dark greyish brown, with bronze reflections ; 

 the white stripes nearer together upon the primaries, 

 and the whole basal area up to the outer stripe striated 

 with white, the secondaries striated with white all over ; 

 all the wings with conspicuous black disco-cellular spots ; 

 the submarginal white-edged spots of primaries small 

 and hastate. Expanse of wings, 33 mm. 



There is also a rather worn male, in which the wings 

 have a glaucous shade, and the stripes and striations 

 are pale yellowish. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



51. Pharmacis dara, n. s. 



Wings above white, slightly washed with cupreous, 

 which gives it a pinky tint ; primaries with the basal 

 third and costal border sparsely black-speckled ; a 

 slightly curved brownish stripe, elbowed upon the costal 

 border, crossing the basal third ; a black disco-cellular 

 dot, an arched black-edged brown discal stripe, followed 

 by a more or less defined zigzag blackish line ; apical 

 half of external area and fringe fuliginous-brown, but the 

 apex white, speckled with black ; a slender white line at 

 the base of the fringe ; secondaries with the basal half 

 black-speckled ; a black disco-cellular dot ; a black- 

 edged brown stripe across the disc from apex to anal 

 angle ; fringe as in primaries ; head blackish, thorax 

 pinky whitish ; abdomen grey, banded with whitish ; 

 under surface white, tinted with pink, irrorated with 

 blackish ; wings with black disco-cellular spots, and with 

 discal and marginal series of black dots ; fringe dark 

 greyish brown, with slender white basal line. Expanse 

 of wings, 32 — 34 mm. 



" Valparaiso, in November and December." — T. E. 



Mr. Edmonds appears to have regarded the whole of 

 the forms of Pharmacis above described as one species ; 

 at any rate they were placed together in a mixed series 

 under one number; they may therefore all be understood 

 to occur at Valparaiso either in November or December ; 

 P. dara, though only represented in the collection by 

 two females, seems to me to be a distinct species. 



