in the Basin of the Amazons. 235 



by which the aj)pearance of a festoon is produced. Hind wing 

 oehreous, suffused almost entirely witli fuscous, except a diffuse 

 patch near the anal angle. Some irregular black lines and spots 

 along the centre ; fringes as in fore wing. Head, palpi, and thorax 

 oehreous ; abdomen oehreous, with the middle segments greyer ; 

 termmal joint of the palpi with a broad black ring. Under side 

 dull oehreous ; fore wing more suffused with grey ; all with a dark 

 central spot ; hind wing showing traces of two or three irregular 

 bands. Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 



One <? . E. Jurua, Oct. 2Gth, 1874. 



Paramimetica, n. g. 

 Fore wing with straight costa, acute apex, and curved hind 

 margin. Hind wing rounded. Markings a succession of sinuous, 

 alternate, pale and dark lines and shades, the same on both wings ; 

 the second line always preceded by a dark shade. Palpi laterally 

 compressed, porrected, slightly ascending, the second joint roughly 

 fringed above, the last joint short, upcurved, widened with scales 

 in the middle, the whole having a feathery appearance ; antennae 

 finely ciliated in both sexes. Neuration : Fore wing, 1st median 

 branch £i'oni very little beyond the middle of the median ; 2nd 

 before the end; 3rd and 4tli from the lower angle of the cell; 1st 

 siibcostal branch from the middle of the siibcostal ; 2nd just beyond 

 it, running close and parallel to the 1st ; 4th, and 5th short-stalked 

 from upper angle of cell ; 3rd out of the 4th just before the apex ; 

 radial from near the upper angle of cell. Hind wmg : costal vein 

 free ; the two subcostal branches from the upper angle of cell ; 1st 

 median branch starting quite near the base before the middle of 

 the median ; 2nd and 3rd short-stalked from the lower angle of 

 cell ; radial from the lower part of the disco-cellular ; the cells of 

 both wings short. 



I propose this genus for the reception of two or three 

 species of small size and delicate structure, geometri- 

 form in appearance, having the markings of the fore wings 

 reproduced on the hind wings, which do not agree well 

 with any other HypenidcE. Besides the two species here 

 described, Hypena sotinsalis, Wlk., xix., p. 840, the type 

 from St. Domingo, and Mcgatomis (?) judicatalis, Wlk., 

 also from St. Domingo, must be included in the genus. 



12. Paramimetica suhrufa, n. s. 

 Fore wings pale oehreous, suffused with yellow, and with deeper 

 oehreous or reddish brown markings; first line undulating, white. 



