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tinued internally to the base ; secondaries with a few orange scales at the base ; no abdominal 

 streak, the central spot enlarged to twice its size ; otherwise as above. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 6 lines. 



Para (J. P. G. Smith). 



Josioides purpurata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 5.) 



Wings purplish brown ; primaries with a broad, oblique, orange band, slightly incurved 

 at its lower extremity : thorax dark brown ; abdomen black, shot with purplish blue, with a 

 lateral orange spot : primaries below with the orange baud broader ; secondaries with a 

 rounded orange spot on the disk ; venter dark brown ; anus orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 (j lines. 



Barreiras das Araras, Rio Solinioes, January 16, 1874. (J. W. H. Trail). 



MELAMERID.E. 



LAMA, Walker. 

 Lama striata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 7.) 



Black-brown : primaries above with a large cuneiform golden yellow patch at the base, 

 intersected by the black nervures and intcrnervular streaks ; a rather narrow oblique band of 

 golden yellow beyond the middle, from the subcostal nervure to near the external angle. Body 

 above slightly bluish ; frons greyish ; genitalia testaceous. Primaries below without the black 

 veins and streaks upon the yellow basal area ; band slightly broader : secondaries with an 

 oblique abbreviated yellow band from submedian nervure to end of cell ; otherwise as above. 

 Body below silky black ; legs greyish in front, brown behind ; venter with a lateral interrupted 

 yellow line. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Espiritu Santo, (see note on p. 46) . 



Allied to Lama trifera of Walker. 



GANGAMELA, Walker. 

 Gangamela fignlina, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 8.) 



Primaries bright orange; the margins, a large triangular apical patch, and the veins 

 towai-ds the base, black-brown: secondaries black-brown. Body black-brown; head and 

 collar spotted with white; tegulag with a central squamose orange streak: abdomen with 

 dorsal and lateral longitudinal grey lines ; pectus orange in front, white behind ; legs with 

 white inner margins to the trochanters and femora; venter white, with central longitudinal 

 black-brown band. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 



Espiritu Santo. 



