396 Sir G. P. Hampson on new 



black ; frons oclireous wliite ; guise orange-red ; vertex of 

 head with ochreous streaks conjoined behind ; tegul?e, patagia, 

 and dorsum o£ thorax Avitli brownish streaks; legs streaked 

 with yellow and blacky the hind tibise and tarsi orange ; 

 abdomen black with some yellow and brown hairs, the first 

 three segments with dorsal yellow patches and their ventral 

 surface ochreous white. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins narrowly black. Hind wing black with the fold 

 and tuft white. 



Hab. Argentina, La Rioja {Giacomelli), 1 o typ^. Exp. 

 24; mm. 



P. 451. Por Trichodesma, Hmpsn. 1898, nee Leconte, 

 Col. 1861, read Desmotricha, n. n. 



1062 a. Delphyre pyroperas, sp. n. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown, the back of head and 

 shoulders Avith paired crimson spots ; palpi at base and coxae 

 pale crimson ; abdomen black-brown, the four terminal 

 segments crimson with slight dark segmental lines and the 

 anal tuft blackish, the ventral surface crimson. Fore wing 

 pale red-brown, the veins, discal and submedian fold slightly 

 darker ; a faint diffused discoidal patch, the apical area with 

 faint diffused patch. Hind wing black-brown with hyaline 

 streaks in, below, and just beyond the cell and on basal inner 

 area. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, 1 ?; Paraguay, Sapu- 

 cay [Foster), 1 S type. Exp. 43 mm. 



1091c. Euce7'eon pyro'ona, sp. n. 



(J . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with yellowish, 

 the back of head and shoulders with paired pale crimson 

 spots, the metathorax with yellowish-white patch ; coxae 

 ci'imson ; abdomen black, with orange-scarlet subdorsal spots 

 on fifth segment and dorsal band on sixth to eighth segment. 

 Pore wing black-brown, with olive-yellowish streaks on the 

 veins and in discal and submedian folds ; a curved olive sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique to vein 1 

 and bent inwards to inner margin ; a round dark spot at 

 middle of cell defined on inner side by olive and on outer by 

 a rather quadrate whitish patch j an olive discoidal striga; a 

 sinuous olive line beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3; 

 postmedial line pale olive, oblique from costa to vein 4 at 



