Lepidoptera of the Amazons. B27 
The figure is not a very good one, but the description 
happily corrects it where in error. 
ALMODES, Guenée. 
25. Almodes stigmaria. 
Boarmia stigmaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxi. p. 868, 
n. 64 (1860). 
Rio Trombetas, 8rd March; Rio Jurua, 18th November, 
1874. 
I have no doubt that Almodes is very closely allied to 
Boarmia, and cannot understand why Guenée placed it 
between genera so utterly dissimilar as Mecoceras and 
EHumelea. 
TrpHrosia, Boisduval. 
26. Tephrosia ? cretacea, nu. 8. 
Dull white, minutely irrorated with grey ; wings crossed 
by two subparallel shghtly arched and widely undulated 
pale testaceous stripes; external border rather broadly 
pale brownish grey, its inner border interrupted by a 
regular series of white-bordered slightly darker spots ; a 
marginal series of black dots; a blackish dot at the end 
of each discoidal cell; primaries with a very indistinct 
third testaceous stripe at basal fifth, all three stripes on 
these wings commencing upon the costal margin in small 
black spots; under surface sordid white; wings with 
slender brown disco-cellular strie; a rather broad 
greyish brown external border ; fringe and the apex of 
the primaries snow-white; expanse of wings, 1 inch 
6 lines. 
Prainha, 14th November, 1878. 
This very distinct species is unfortunately represented 
by only one headless specimen, so that for the present it 
is impossible to decide with absolute certainty whether it 
is a Tephrosia or a Boarnia; the pattern is more like 
that of the former genus; it seems allied to 7’. incon- 
gruaria of Rio Janeiro. 
The two genera Boarnia and Tephrosia are at present 
in a state of great confusion, fully bearing out M. Guenée’s 
remarks (first as to Boarmia), ‘‘ Voici un genre trés- 
ancien, universellement adopté, et cependant jusqu’ici 
assez mal limité”’; and (secondly as to Tephrosia), ‘‘ Les 
