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marginal white spots wider apart, eonnectcd by distinct black 

 daslics, the ground-colour between them bright buff; secon- 

 daries with a crimson streak near the base ami three on abdo- 

 minal area, also a crimson streak along tiie lower half of 

 the abdominal margin ; irregular green streaks on basal area 



broader and more distinct; intermediate subraar<'inal lunu- 



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lated streak crimson, excepting at the interruptions on the 



nervures, where it is grey ; ocelli larger, with deep orange- 

 red zones. 



Expanse of wings 5 inches 3 lines. 



Hob. Costa Rica {Grab). Type, B.M. 



In a collection of insects recently presented to the British 

 Museum by Osbert Salvin, Esq., I have found the following 

 beautiful new species of lleterocerous Lepidoptera ; — 



Family Arctiidae. 



Subfamily Cuauidbin.^'^. 



Genus Belemnia. 



Belemnia Jovis, n. sp. 



General character of B. eryx, but much larger and more 

 brilliant in colouring, the rosy spot on primaries replaced by a 

 larger deep-carmine spot ; the aljdomen alcove entirely ])right 

 metallic green, with a central longitudinal bi'own streak ; in 

 B. erijx the hinder segments are purple in the male, and the 

 female probably has a yellow instead of a rosy spot in pri- 

 maries ; on the underside the green streaks and spots are 

 much more brilliant than in B. eryx^ and the carmine spot 

 as above. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches to 2 inches 1 line. 



Hah. Veragua {Salvin) ^ Honduras {Miller). Type, B.M. 



The example from Honduras was previously the only repre- 

 sentative of this species in the collection, and was considered 

 to be the female of B. eryx ; now, however, we have a fine 

 series, owing to the generosity of Mr. Salvin, and there can 

 be no doubt of its entire distinctness. It is most like B. in- 

 aurata of Sulzer (nee Cramer) , but differs in the uniform green 

 colour of the abdomen in both sexes. B. inaurata of Cramer 

 may be named B. Crameri. 



* 1 find by a careful study of the structural characters of this group, 

 and more especially of the neuration of the wings, that they cannot be 

 separated from the Arctlidae. 



