228 Mr. A. G. Butler on Peruvian Lepidoptera. 



side ; head black, with collar green ; tegulse black, with large 

 white central spot ; antennae black : wings below altogether 

 paler than above ; hind wings with costa metallic green. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Family Lithosiid.se. 



Genus 19. Chrysauge, Hiibner. 



Group Flavinia, Walker. 



32. Chrysauge limbata, n. sp. B.M. 



Wings above and below golden-yellow, with the margins 

 rather broadly black-brown ; body brown ; abdomen with a 

 lateral yellow streak ; a brush of white hairs, slightly ochreous 

 at base, emitted from side of thorax at base of secondaries. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Family Arctiidae. 

 Genus 20. Anaxita, Walker. 



33. Anaxita sannionis, n. sp. B.M. 



Allied to A. decorata. Primaries above with basal half 

 ochraceous, apical half crimson ; the nervures and interner- 

 vular folds black ; the median nervure and all the nervures 

 on disk enclosed in greyish-olivaceous ("hoary," Walker) 

 bands, edged with dark brown ; a fasciole of the same character 

 at base, a second crossing basal third, and a third just before 

 end of cell, the second continued to inner margin, and another, 

 corresponding to the terminal discoidal fasciole (although not 

 continuous with it), running from base of first median branch 

 to inner margin ; a basi-costal spot, a streak above median 

 nervure (extending from the second to the third transverse 

 fasciole), the interno-basal area, and a round spot between the 

 two fascioles beyond it crimson : secondaries rosy-crimson ; 

 the apex, outer margin, a triangular patch at anal angle, and 

 the nervures from the median upwards, excepting at base, 

 brown : body crimson ; collar and tegulae golden-yellow, brown- 

 edged ; abdomen with brown dorsal line ; anus and venter 

 blackish, with three golden-yellow spots on each side ; legs 

 and antennae brown. Wings below nearly as above ; primaries 

 with all the bands brown, a black costal spot on each of the 

 discoidal fascioles, basal area rosy ; secondaries with a yellow 

 subcostal striole. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 



Much like A. decorata, but differing in colour and with 



