54 AECTIID.E.— LITHOSIIDJE. 



HERACLEA, Hiibner. 

 Heraclea commixta, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 1.) 



Primaries black-brown ; the fringe, an interno-median line from the base, and a post- 

 median oblique litnra, pale testaceous : secondaries scarlet, with a broad black-brown outer 

 border just enclosing a curved subapical line of scarlet. Body black-brown ; abdomen 

 mottled with scarlet at the sides. "Wings below pale red, with broad brown borders ; primaries 

 with whitish fringe : body as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Guatemala. 



I found H. commixta in the collection as Ammalo he/ops of Cramer. 



HOPLARCTIA, n. gen. 



Allied to Heraclea, but easily distinguished by its hairy body and metallic coloration, and 

 its long strongly pectinated antennse. Type H. nan/ana. 



Hoplarctia nantana. (Plate XIX. fig. 2.) 

 Ammalo nantana (sic), Walker, Cat. Lep. llei. Styopl. i. p. 282 (1864). 



Primaries chocolate-brown ; the inner margin, lower half of external fringe, and a lon- 

 gitudinal streak from the base (through the cell) to near the outer margin, ochreous ; a 

 silvery green spot at the base : secondaries carmine, with a very irregular black-brown outer 

 border; fringe, excepting at apex, orange. Body black; head and thorax spotted, and 

 abdomen banded with metallic blue-green. Primaries below brown, with a broad expanding 

 scarlet streak from the base to near outer margin ; a scarlet litura above submedian ncrvure : 

 secondaries scarlet, irregularly bordered with brown; fringe as above: legs streaked with 

 metallic green. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



East Peru {Degand). 



It is needless to point out how this species differs from Ammalo helops and allies, 

 inasmuch as there is no resemblance whatever between them. 



LITHOSIIDiE. 

 JOSIOIDES, Felder. 



Josioides sexmaculata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 4.) 



Black-brown: primaries with a large central orange patch; a subapical lunate orange 

 Bpot: secondaries witl a central pyriform orange spot; an orange streak on abdominal 

 margin : abdomen with lateral orange streaks. Primaries below with the orange patch con- 



