in the Basin of the Amazons. 211 



be included in the same genus, of which it may be 

 useful here to give briefly the names and synonymy : — 



Phostria tedea. 



Phalcena-Pyralis tedea, Cram., iv., p. 48, pi. 312, 



fig. G. 

 Desmia (?) tedea, Ld., W. E. M., vii., p. 438. 

 Hyalitis (?) tedea, Gn., Delt. & Pyr., p. 289. 

 Glyphodes ? tedealis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xvii., 



506. 

 Phostria tedea, Moschler, Surinam, iv., p. 40 (430). 



Habitat. Surinam. Two examples in the Brit. Mus. 

 Collection. 



Phostria oajacalis. 



Botys oajacalis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xxxiv., 



1393. 

 Habitat. Mexico. One specimen in the Brit. Mus. 

 Collection. 



Phostria pelialis. 



Botys pelialis, Feld., Keise Nov., pi. 135, fig. 46. 

 Habitat. Mexico. 



Phostria conjluentalis, n. s. 



Habitat. Rio Janeiro. One example in the Brit. 

 Mus. Collection. 



81. Astura elevata. 



Phalcena elevata, Fabr., E. S., iii., 2, 216, 325. 

 Astura elevalis, Gn., Delt. & Pyr., 319, 345. 



One ? . Pupunhazinho, R. Jurua, Nov. 8th, 1874. 

 The examples in the British Museum Collection are 

 from Para and Ega. 



82. Omiodes leporalis (?). 

 Omiodes leporalis, Gn., Delt. & Pyr., 357, 428. 



One $ . Prainha, Nov. 11th, 1873. 



The example is very much worn : owing to this circum- 

 stance, and the fact that there is no example of Guenee's 

 insect in the British Museum Collection, I can only make 

 a probable identification. The shape of the fore wings 

 is evidently that of an Omiodes. 



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