<S'^)pr«'<?.s (/ B.ictroilodcnia (Pha^mida"). 449 



the otliors. Tormina dark brown, pointcdj with iiTCf^ulai' 

 loniiitudinal carina^, whitish towards the base and round the 

 reddish huin|). Win^s with the costal area })bick, otherwise 

 light brown, indistinctly spotted with grey. Hinder part of 

 the wings purplish brown, with subhyahne bands more or 

 less broken into spots, and with a few smaller, rounder, and 

 whiter spots placed rather irregularly among the others. 



Dimensions. — Long. corp. 116 millim. ; ca[). 4 ; pron. 5; 

 meson. 23; met. cum segm. med. 13; segm. me<l. 7; fem. 

 ant. ^5(l ; fem. med. 25; fem. jjost. 3o ; exp. al. 120. 



IJuh. Js'Gami Country. Presented by Sir F. D. J. 

 Lu-ard, K.C.M.G.,C.B., in 1898. 



Tiiis is the specimen alluded to in Ins. Transv^ p. 47, 

 bottom paragrapli. 



2. liactrododema Wayi^ sp. n. 



^faIe. — Very similar to the last species, but with longer, 

 narrower, and darker wings. Antennaj pubescent, redilish, 

 spotted with black at the joints ; ocelliferous tubercles with 

 slender reddish spines, curved semicircularly backwards; 

 behind each eye is a broad, oblique, black stripe, continued ou 

 each side of the central carina to two thirds of the length of 

 the mesonotuui ; the upper part of the head behind the 

 ocelliferous tubercles is brown, longitudinally striated with 

 white, and ihe pronotum and mesonotum are varied with grey 

 and brownish. Abdomen reddish (denuded?), grey towards 

 the extremity. Legs brown, varied with yeUowish. Teg- 

 inina pointed, grey, the hinder half bordered on both sides 

 with black ; the hump and a central carina well marked, the 

 latter marked with a black line towards the extremity. 

 Wings with the costal area black at the base, otherwise 

 light brown, broadly grey along the costa tor more than half 

 their length, and with most of the longitudinal nervures 

 yellowish; the rest of the wings darker purplish brown than 

 in the last species, and with more numerous subhyaline bands 

 of more or less connected spots and with other smaller and 

 isolated spots. 



Jjimensions. — Long. corp. 130 millim.; cap. 4; pron. 5; 

 meson. 24 ; met. cum segm, med. 13; segm. med. 7; fem. 

 ant. 38 ; fem. med. 29 ; fem. post. 40 ; exp. al. 140. 



Hub. Fort Johnston, B.C.A. 



Presented by Lewis C. Way, Esq., Vicc-Consul, Fort 

 Johnston, B.C. A., who wrote on Feb. 5, 1902: — "Several 

 people wiio were present when it was caught had never seen 

 one quite the same. It flew into the billiard-ruoni of the 

 Naval Club House here a few nights atro." 



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