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maries are chestnut, with the characteristic Hues and markings dark brown. 

 The secondaries are minium-red with the inner margin broadly blackish, 

 this blackish tract being evaded beyond the cell by the red of the outer 

 half of the wing which also sweeps inwardly along the inner margin. 

 The fringe at the anal angle is gray, as are also the tufted hairs along the 

 inner margin. On the under side both wings are minium-red. The 

 primaries have an obscure lunulate discal spot. E.\panse 55-60 mm. 



There is an unnamed specimen of this insect in the British 

 Museum. 



MINUCIA Moore. 



3. M. verecnnda sp. nov. (J'. — Palpi, head, and upperside of the thorax 

 chestnut. The upperside of the abdomen is fuscous; the lowerside of the 

 thorax and abdomen is paler, sericeous. The upperside of the primaries 

 is cinereous chestnut, with a broad submarginal band of dark chestnut, 

 constricted opposite the end of the cell; there is a lunulate dark spot at 

 the end of the cell and a minute blackish spot in its middle. The secon- 

 daries are fuscous, paler at the base and the outer angle, and with the 

 outer third shaded near the middle of the margin with black. On the 

 underside the primaries are fuscous, crossed by a pale grayish band be- 

 yond the end of the cell, and with the outer third, except on the margin, 

 broadly blackish. The secondaries below are fuscous laved with ochra- 

 ceous at the base and darker on the outer margin. Expanse 55 mm. 



OPHIODES Guen. 



4. 0. catocalina sp. nov. (^. — Front, collar, patagia, and the upperside 

 of the thorax rufous ochraceous; the upperside of the abdomen is fuscous; 

 the lowerside of the body is obscure pale ochraceous. The primaries are 

 rufous ochraceous, with the fringes brown; they are marked by five nar- 

 row, transverse, brown lines, viz.: a basal, a subbasal, two transverse 

 limbal, and a submarginal line. The submarginal line is broader than the 

 rest and less sharply defined; the outermost of the transverse limbal lines 

 is composed of a series of regularly curved lines located upon the inter- 

 spaces. This series is sharply deflected toward the base at the first sub- 

 costal nervule. The innermost of the transverse limbal lines and the 

 subbasal line approach each other as they draw near the inner margin. 

 The secondaries are fuscous on the basal third, and bright yellow on the 

 outer two-thirds, except where crossed by a broad black submarginal 

 band, which diminishes in size from the outer angle toward the inner 

 margin. On the underside both wings are paler; both have a lunulate 

 discal spot at the end of the cell; both are traversed beyond the cell by 

 incomplete transverse bands parallel to the outer margin. Of these bands 

 the submarginal band is the heaviest. The primaries are marked above 

 the outer angle by a large, round, blackish spot. 



$. — The female does not greatly differ from the male, except in the 

 greater robustness of the abdomen. Expanse: (j^, 65 mm.; $.7omm. 



