MAEISSA. — HTDA. 35 



Marissa multicincta. (Plate XI. fig. 11.) 



Glaueopis (Poeeilosoma) multicincta $ , Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. i. p. 163. n. 40 (1854). 



Wings hyaline; tlie veins, borders, and a discocellular spot on primaries black-brown. 



Body brown, with two parallel longitudinal series of ill-defined greenish grey squamose spots ; 



collar and base of abdomen spotted with carmine, outer edge of tegulae, lateral abdominal 



series of spots, anal tuft, and three ventral stripes on the last segments, carmine ; hind margin 



of collar, inner edge of tegulae, and a series of transverse lines from the mesothorax to the 



anus, white; sides of pectus brown; trochanters within and femora and tibiae below white ; 



sides of trochanters metallic blue ; venter white, spotted at the sides with carmine and black ; 



a black spot in front of the three subterminal carmine stripes. Expanse of wings 1 inch 



o lines. 



Haiti {Cuming). 



HYSIA, Walker. 



Hysia inelaleiica. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



Glaueopis (Hysia) melaleuca, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. i. p. 173. n. 58 (1854). 



Primaries hyaline white ; the veins, apex, and borders black : secondaries black, with a 

 hyaline white streak below the cell and a spot in the cell. Body black ; head and thorax 

 spotted with white ; abdomen greyish, with central and marginal sordid whitish longitudinal 

 stripes : body below greyish brown ; trochanters, a basicentral stripe on the venter, and a 

 spot at anus white. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Para (Bates). 



DESMIDOCNEMIS, Moeschler. 

 Desmidocnemis platyleuca. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 

 Glaueopis (Herea) platyleuca, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 198. n. 102 (1854). 



Wings hyaline white, veins and margins black : primaries with a few cream-coloured 

 hairs at base of costal area ; secondaries with the costa snow-white. Body black ; anterior 

 part of frons white ; crest and hind margin of head dotted with whitish ; anterior and inner 

 margins of tegulse whitish ; abdomen with a whitish marginal line : body below white ; legs 

 black above ; venter with a blackish marginal line. Expanse of wings 10| lines. 



Venezuela (Dyson). 



HYDA, Walker. 



Hyda xanthorhina. (Plate XI. fig. 8.) 



Eurata xanthorhina, Berrich-Schaffer, Anss. Schmett. i. fig. 226. 

 Hyda xanthorhina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1616 (1856). 

 Glaueopis (Hyda) basilutea, Walker, I.e. i. p. 182. n. 75 (1854). 



Wings hyaline white, the base broadly orange ; veins beyond the basal area, the margins, 



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