THE ANNALS 



AMD 



AIAGAZING OF NATURAL lllSTOilY. 



[NINTH SimiES.] 

 No. 53. MAY 192l\ 



LVJ. — A Freliminartj List of the Arctiinie of Para, Brazil., 

 and a few from other Localities. By Lord Rothschild, 

 F.R.S., Ph.D. 



The material of tlie subfamily Arctiinse ou wliicli this list 

 is Ibuiided forms part of very extensive collections made at 

 Para by the Rev. A. JNIiles Moss, English Chaplain there. 

 A considerable number were bred, but the larger series 

 were taken either on the electric lights of the town of 

 Para or the special lamps used by Mr. Moss for attracting 

 Heterocera. 



1. Thyractia cedo-milli (StoUj. 



riialcena cedo-nulli, Stoll in Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iv. part xxix. 

 p. 108, pi. cccxlvi. figs. A, 13 (1781) (iSuriuaiu). 



2 S 6 and 2 ? ? bred, -1 J J caught. 



2. Gonotrephes friya (Drucej 

 iV 



1 (S caught. 



Thijrarctia friya, Druce, Ann. & .Mafi'. Xat. Hist. (7) xvii. p. 400 

 (^Carabaya). 



3. Zievitis calocore, J)yar. 



ZcfviuK cuhicurc, Dyar, Zooloj^ica, N.Y. vul. i. p. I2t>, pi. Lxi. no. 3 

 (lUlO) (Iloorie, lirilisli Guiana). 



[The $ of this species has not yet been described. It 

 diliers from the c^ in being much larger, the fore wings are 

 Ann. ib Mag. N. Hist. JSer. 9. Vol. ix. 30 



