254 Mr. W. Scliaus on 



hind wings fuscous brown, the former with fine pale segmental 

 lines. I'ore wings deep purple, iridescent ; an anteniedial 

 dark reddish-brown shade, widest on costa, not reaching 

 inner margin; a yellow spot irrorated with red medially on 

 costa, preceded by a broken white line, and followed by a 

 thick white line ; a yellow spot in cell below it, and a white 

 spot in cell above median, the latter followed by a small 

 yellow and red spot ; postmedial line slightly curved, 

 brownish, indistinct ; a small white spot on costa beyond 

 postmedial ; a broad subterminal dark red shade, irrorated 

 with yellow towards costa, interrupted at vein 3 and not 

 reaching inner margin, foUow'ed partly by some dark brown 

 shading ; a slight yellow shade at apex ; cilia yellow from 

 apex to vein 4, then dark. Wings below fuscous, shaded 

 with dark red especially at apices ; fore wing with ])ale 

 yellowish costal patch medially ; hind wings with postmedial 

 yellowish line. 



Expanse, ^ 19, ? 23 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas, Sitio, Cachi. 



Casuaria neglecta^ sp. n. 



$. Palpi fuscous. Head, collar, and patagia olive-brown, 

 f'horax and abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wings dark 

 olive-brown ; base of costa light brown ; a small black spot 

 at end of cell ; a small w^hite costal spot before apex ; a Hue 

 pale and indistinct line iVom apex to inner margin before 

 tornus ; some lilacine scales terminally. Hind wings bright 

 yellow, the outer margin broadly black, its inner edge angled 

 at vein 3 ; the costa narrowly black. Wings below bright 

 yellow ; the costal margins narrowly, the outer margins 

 broadly black ; base of costa on fore wing shaded with brown. 



$ . Fore wings more distinctly olive ; traces of a tine 

 antemedial line; two small whitish spots medially below cell, 

 shaded with a few brown scales, these spots superposed 

 obliquely, the upper spot minute. Underneath the costa of 

 fore wing broadly reddish brown to apex. 



Expanse, $ 25, ? 26 mm. 



Hah. Sixola. 



Casuaria purpurea, sp. n. 



$ . Palpi dark purplish red. Head, collar, and thorax 

 lilacine brown. Abdomen dark olive-grey with faint paler 

 segmental lines. Fore wings dark lilacine brown tliinly 

 irrorated with black, especially on medial space; lines fine, 

 paler, the antemedial slightly outbent, the postmedial out- 



