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marginal white spots wider apart, connected by distinct black 
dashes, the ground-colour between them bright buff; secon- 
daries with a crimson streak near the base and three on abdo- 
minal area, also a crimson streak along the lower half of 
the abdominal margin; irregular green streaks on basal area 
broader and more distinct; intermediate submarginal lunu- 
lated streak crimson, excepting at the interruptions on the 
nervures, where it is grey; ocelli larger, with deep orange- 
red zones. 
E:xpanse of wings 5 inches 3 lines. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Grab). Type, B.M. 
_ In a collection of insects recently presented to the British 
Museum by Osbert Salvin, Esq., I have found the following 
beautiful new species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera :— 
Family Arctiide. 
Subfamily Casrmzwz*. 
Genus BELEMNIA. 
Belemnia Jovis, n. sp. 
General character of B. eryx, but much larger and more 
brilliant in colouring, the rosy spot on primaries replaced by a 
larger deep-carmine spot ; the abdomen above entirely bright 
metallic green, with a central longitudinal brown streak ; in 
B. eryx the hinder segments are purple in the male, and the 
female probably has a yellow instead of a rosy spot in pri- 
maries; on the underside the green streaks and spots are 
much more brilliant than in B. eryx, and the carmine spot 
as above. 
Expanse of wings 2 inches to 2 inches 1 line. 
Hab. Veragua (Salvin), Honduras (Miller). Type, B.M. 
The example from Honduras was previously the only repre- 
sentative of this species in the collection, and was considered 
to be the female of B. erya; now, however, we have a fine 
series, owing to the generosity of Mr. Salvin, and there can 
be no doubt of its entire distinctness. It is most like B. in- 
aurata of Sulzer (nee Cramer), but differs in the uniform green 
colour of the abdomen in both sexes. B. cnaurata of Cramer 
may be named B. Cramert.’ 
* I find by a careful study of the structural characters of this group, 
and more especially of the neuration of the wings, that they cannot be 
separated from the Arctide. 
