278 New Heterocera from Central America. 
TeveA, Hiibn. 
Telea aurelia, sp. n. 
Male.—Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour ; pri- 
maries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by a 
very wide black band, edged on both sides with a waved black 
line, which is edged on the inner side with pink and white 
scales; the costal margin thickly irrorated with white scales 
from the base almost to the apex; the apex streaked with 
pink and white, with a rather large black spot on the costal 
margin; a large hyaline spot at the end of the cell, bordered 
with reddish fawn-colour and then broadly with black, the 
basal half of the biack ring being thickly irrorated with bluish- 
white scales; a narrow, straight, fawn-coloured line extends 
from the costal margin close to the apex to the inner margin 
above the anal angle: secondaries, the central part of the 
wing dusky black ; a large hyaline spot at the end of the cell 
very broadly bordered with deep black, which is_ thickly 
irrorated on the inner side with pale blue scales; a submar- 
ginal pale fawn-coloured line extends from the costal margin 
to the anal angle. Underside pale fawn-colour, thickly irro- 
rated with white scales, with the markings very similar to 
those above, but of a dark brown colour. ‘The head, underside 
of the thorax, and legs dark brown; the collar and front of 
the thorax greyish white, the thorax and abdomen pale fawn- 
colour ; the antenne yellowish brown. 
Expanse 5? inches. 
Hab. Mexico, near Durango city (Becker). 
This species 1s very distinct from any known to me. 
Fam. Hepialida. 
Puassus, Walker. 
Phassus marcius, sp. n. 
Primaries pale greyish brown, thickly marked with grey 
and darker brown lines; a double row of blackish-brown 
elongated spots crosses the wing from the costal margin near 
the apex to the inner margin, and a row of elongated curved 
lines extends round the outer margin from the apex to the anal 
angle; arather long metallic gold streak broken into three 
spots at the end of the cell, beyond which, nearer the outer 
margin, are two very minute metallic gold dots: secondaries 
pale greyish brown, palest at the base, with several indistinet 
