518 Mr. A. G. Butler's Descriptions 



9. Achlyodes Odina, n. sp. 



Wings above, almost as in the preceding species, the 

 bands better defined, especially at their extremities. 

 Wings below, pale ochreous gray ; front- wings ochraceous, 

 crossed by two pale brown bands, ochreous in the middle, 

 the inner one arched, margin dusky, intersected by a 

 pale line ; hind-wings crossed by two yellowish vdiite- 

 edged bands ; body gray, palpi whitish. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 5 lines. 



Hah. — Venezuela. Coll. Kaden in Coll. Druce. 



Allied to the preceding species. 



Genus Helias, Fabricius. 

 1. Helias pedaliodina, n. sp. 



Wings above, pitchy, paler at the apex and outer 

 margin of front-wings, which exhibit an irregular sub- 

 marginal streak, five hyaline points near the apex, and 

 two on the disc ; body pitchy. Wings below, paler, 

 irregularly banded with gray and hatched with dark 

 brown ; front- wings with apical spot ; hind- wings with 

 two large costal patches, and a central spot, red-brown ; 

 body brownish-black. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 9 lines. 



Hab.— ?. Coll. Druce. 



Resembles the species of Pedaliodes in colouring. 



2. Helias ditirna, n. sp. 



Wings above, olive-brown, streaked here and there 

 with darker markings, a white hyaline costal V-bke 

 character near the apex; hind- wings strongly dentate, 

 black at the base, an angulate series of seven blackish 

 discal lunules, and a corresponding series of marginal 

 lunules; body blackish. Front-wings below, brown, an 

 oblique trifid orange spot at the apex, an apical costal 

 line and marginal points between the nervures of the 

 same colour ; hind- wings, costal-half brown, spotted here 

 and there with orange, and with blackish markings, as 

 above, anal area grayish-white, the spots of the upper- 

 surface (except on the margin) replaced by gray ones. 



