176 Sir G. F. Hampson on the 



NotodontidsB. 

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

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



Saturniadge. 

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

 Nassau [Sir G. Carter). 



Geoinetridse. 



BoAEMIAN^. 



Merocausta purpuraria, sp. n. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-brown, mixed with 

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

 irrorated with fuscous, the postmedial area more chocolate- 

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

 nervure ; 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 siibterminal line from vein 3 

 to tornus ; the underside greyer and irrorated with fuscous. 



Hab. Nassau [Sir G. Carter), 1 cJ type. Ex2J. 20 mm. 



Phrygionis argyrosticta, sp. n. 



cJ . Antennae bipectinate, with long branches ; yellow ; 

 head tinged with 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 band irrorated with 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 S type. Exp. 34 mm. 



Macaria bi filar ia, sp. n. 



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

 tinged with rufous. Wings white, irrorated with black and 



