4 CHARACTERS OF UNDESCRIBED 



Brown. Body slender, testaceous beneath. Head with a pro- 

 minent frontal tuft. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi slightly 

 ascending, not longer than the breadth of the head; third joint 

 lanceolate, as long as the second. Antenna filiform, slender. Legs 

 testaceous, smooth, slender ; fore tibiae very short ; hind tibiae with 

 four slender spurs. Wings very broad ; under side with white mar- 

 ginal points ; fringe ochraceous, with some brown marks, which are 

 most numerous in the fore wings. Fore wings acute, with a post- 

 medial hardly oblique luteous band, which is narrower and tinged 

 with ochraceous near the hind angle, to which it does not extend ; 

 under side with a white point and two exterior transverse white 

 streaks in the disk between the base and the band; first streak 

 oblique, much shorter than the second. Hind wings beneath red, 

 speckled with testaceous, with two approximate white points in the 

 disk at one-third of the length, and with four postmedial undulating 

 very irregular testaceous bands. Length of the body 6 ? lines ; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



2. EUCEREA MELANOPYGA. Fam. Fusca, robusta, cylindrica ; 

 capite thorace antico pectoreque rufo-ochraceis, palpis rufo-ochraceis 

 oblique ascendentibus, articulo 3o fusco conico minimo ; antennis 

 cyaneo-nigris basi rufis ; abdominis dimidio basali coxis femoribusque 

 rufis ; alis anticis subpurpurascentibus ; alis posticis cinereis per- 

 parum hyalinis fuscescente marginatis. 



Female. Brown, stout, cylindrical. Head, pectus and fore part 

 of the thorax reddish ochraceous. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 reddish ochraceous, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the 

 vertex ; third joint conical, brown, very minute. Antennae bluish 

 black, red at the base. Abdomen extending for half its length beyond 

 the hind wings ; upper side bright red for more than half the length 

 from the base. Legs stout, smooth ; femora, except the tips and 

 coxae, red. Fore wings with a slight purplish tinge. Hind wings 

 cinereous, very slightly hyaline, brownish along the exterior. Length 

 of the body 9 lines ; of the wings. 21 lines. 



3. CYCLOSIA SPILOPHILA. Mas. Saturate ferrugineo-fusca ; cor- 

 pore saturate cyaneo ; capite albo quadripunctato ; abdomine brevi 

 punctis lateralibus albis, segmentis ventralibus albo marginatis ; alis 

 fascia subraarginali e strigis albis cyaneo marginatis ; alis anticis 

 lineis duabus transversis postmediis e guttis albis, costa apicem versus 

 saturate cyanea ; alis posticis guttis septem albis postmediis. 



Male. Deep ferruginous-brown. Body deep blue. Head conical 

 in front ; a white point on each side in front of the eye and another 

 behind the eye. Antennae black, moderately pectinated ; branches 

 very thick-set. Abdomen much shorter than the interior border of 



