17G Sir G. F. Hampson on the 



Notodontidae. 

 Nystalea ebalea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccx. C (1781). 

 Abaco (P. A. Meers) ; Nassau {Sir G. Carter). 



Saturniadae, 

 Automeris Hebe, Wlk. xxxii. 536 (1865). 

 Nassau [Sir G. Carter). 



Geometridae. 



BOABMIAN^. 



Merocausta purpuraria, sp. n. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen purple- brown, mixed with 

 grey. Fore wing purple-brown, suffused with grey and 

 irrorafcd with fuscous, the postmedial area more chocolate- 

 brown ; an ill-defined antemedial dark line angled on median 

 iiervure ; a chocolate discoidal spot, with dark line from it 

 to inner margin ; a dark postmedial line, excurved from 

 costa to discal fold, then oblique ; a diffused dark sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing red-brown, with obscure dark strise and indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines and subterminal line from vein 3 

 to tornus ; the underside greyer and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Hab. Nassau [Sir G. Carter), 1 ^ type. Exp. 20 mm. 



Phryyionis arc/ijrosticta, sp. n. 



cJ . Antcnnse bipectinate, with long branches; yellow; 

 head tinged Avith brown ; abdomen with some dark scales on 

 dorsum. Fore wing with subbasal and two antemedial series 

 of dark points with silvery scales on them, the antemedial 

 series incurved below cell ; a curved medial series of similar 

 points with another series beyond it between veins 7 and 2 ; 

 the terminal area striated with brown. Hind wing with the 

 medial area striated with brown ; a postmedial line incurved 

 at discal fold ; an indistinct silvery subterminal line ; a fiery 

 red terminal baud irrorated wdth silver from apex to discal 

 fold, where there is a small ocellus with semicircular black 

 mark on its outer edge ; a fiery red stigma on termen near 

 tornus. 



Hab. Abaco (P. A. Meers), 1 c^ type. Exp. 34 ram. 



Macaria bifilaria, sp. n. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the head slightly 

 tinged with rulou^. AVings white, irrorated with black and 



