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 Lithosiidae. 



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 san?iionis, n. sp. B.M. 

 Allied to A. decorata. Primaries above with basal half 



ochraceous, apical half crimson ; the nervures and Jnterner- 

 vular folds black ; the median nervm-e and all the nervui'es 

 on disk enclosed in greyish-olivaceous ("hoary," W^alker) 

 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), i-unniug from base of first median branch 

 to rnner margin ; a basi-costal spot, a sti-eak above median 

 nervm'e (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 nervm*es from the median upwards, excepting at base, 

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

 edged ; abdomen with brown dorsal line ; anus and venter 

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

 and antennse 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 



