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LOXOPHLEBIA DAVISI. 
Head black, palpi in front, margins of frons, ring round 
neck and antennae in front near tip white; thorax orange ; 
white stripes on fore tarsi; abdomen brown-black, with 
white spot on first segment, and a blue shading at ventral 
extremity; wings hyaline, with orange patches at base, 
veins and margins black. Fore-wings with apex broadly 
black and margin widened at tornus, a black line on 
upper discocellular. Hind-wings with terminal band 
and basal two-thirds of inner margin widened. 
Expanse 31 mm. 
Habitat. British Honpuras, Castile, Belize River, 
June, 1912, Dr. Davis. Type in British Museum, co-type 
in coll. Gibbs. 
There are three species of Macrocneme, dark-coloured 
insects with brushes of long hairs on the tibiae and tarsi, one 
of which is either a small specimen of M. jalapensis, so far 
only known from Mexico, or possibly it may be a new species. 
Of the other two, M. auripes is recorded from both British 
Honduras and the neighbouring republic of Guatemala, while 
M. nigritarsia has been found in the latter country. Two 
insects having a superficial resemblance but belonging to 
different genera are Dinia aeagrus and Mesolasia haemor- 
rhoidalis, both handsome insects, the latter especially so. 
Dr. Davis has noticed that these insects remain on the wing 
in the sunshine through the hot hours of the day. 
There are half-a-dozen specimens of that attractive moth, 
Belemia jovis, one of the Arctiadae, and they exhibit some 
amount of variation in the dimensions of the scarlet band on 
the fore-wing, which in one of them is almost obliterated. 
Another moth belonging to the same Family is the beautiful 
Agyrta dux, Walk., which has the appearance of an Ithomiid 
that flies with it in the early morning hours before the sun 
is very hot. Dr. Davis says that on the wing it is almost 
impossible to distinguish one insect from the other. 
Among the insects of other Orders sent by Dr. Davis, 
especially interesting is an Hemipteron, a species of Umbonia, 
