Lepidoplera in the Joicey Collection. 31 



Except in the lesa glossy wings more recalls the adela 

 pro up of Hamalia (especially delila, Schs., Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) ix. p. 'i:')i>, as Dithadama) than any Ptycho- 

 poda with which I can compare it. 



18. Flavinia stenochora, sp. n. 



$ . — :>7 mm. 



Head black, narrowly white round the eve. Palpus short. 

 Body black, the abdomen with an interrupted yellow stripe 

 on the .side and white line beneath. 



Fore wing with areole single, narrow, in one example 

 almost suppressed ; 1>0 3 oblique, R 2 arising near (in the type 

 even close to) R 3 , M 1 widely separate, black, with the proximal 

 yellow patch narrow, not crossing M or !SM 2 ; subapical 

 yellow patch rather broad ; fringe black. 



Hind wing rather elongate ; yellow, with rather broad 

 black borders, the abdominal tapering to a point proximally, 

 the anterior crossing SC, so as to enter the cell, but dis tally 

 thereto bounded by the stalk of SC 2 and R 1 . 



Underside similar, the fore wing with a yellow posterior 

 streak in proximal part of cell. 



Minas Geraes, Brazil, type in coll. Joicey, ex. coll. Gr.- 

 Sm. 2 V $ from the Milne collection, without locality, 

 have for more than half a century stood in coll. Brit. Mus., 

 originally mixed by Walker among his approximans, List 

 Lep. Ins. ii. p. 370 {isis, Hb.). 



Perhaps near dubia, Schs., distinguished by the venation, 

 by the proximal patch of fore wing not entering the cell, the 

 white line on venter, yellow streak on cell of fore wing 

 beneath, etc. The exceptional position of R 2 of fore wing 

 — hitherto only known, in this family, in a few Geometrime 

 and one or two Larentiinae — may betoken generic divergence. 



Subfamily Larextiinje. 



19. Mennis ficulnea albifera, subsp. n. 



<$ . — 34-37 mm. 



(Smaller than Jiculnea ficuluea from Ecuador, ground-colour 

 redder, distal borders generally broadened ; fore wing with a 

 more or less extended white posterior patch, commencing at 

 a point close to base, broadening rapidly, bounded distally 

 by the black border ; hind wing also frequently with some 

 whitish shading between the ground-colour and the border 

 posteriorly. 



