1880.] LORD WALSINGHAM ON NEW TINElDvE. 87 



below. Tongue scaled with white at the base. Fore wings glossy- 

 cupreous violet, with large shiniug snow-white spots and blotches ; 

 six spots on the basal half and middle of the wing (three upon and 

 three below the cell) well defined and sejiarate, others along the 

 oosta and on the apical third of the wing contiguous to the anal 

 angle more or less blended and irregular; a while spot on the 

 middle of the base is blended with another at the base of the dorsal 

 margin ; above it, on the costa, and bej'ond it, on the median vein, 

 are shades of dark glossy blue, which are also to be found on the 

 lower half of the apical margin above the anal angle. The costa, 

 except at the extreme base, is white ; the cilia white, tinged around 

 the apex with greyish brown at their tips. Hind wings pale greyish 

 brown, rather whitish, but not quite transparent tovt^ards the base. 

 Abdomen greyish brown, whitish beneath ; the anal tuft orange- 

 ochreous. The femora of the first pair of legs are orange-ochreous 

 beneath ; the tibise and tarsi greyish brown beneath, wliite above. 

 The second and third pairs of legs have the base only of the femora 

 orange-ochreous, the tibise and tarsi spotted with purj^lish brown. 



1 5 . Expanse 28 millims. 



Rio do Espirito Santo, Brazil. 

 _ I have been unable to find any figure or description of this beau- 

 tiful Brazilian species. It seems to agree more nearly with Pse- 

 cadia (Zeller) than with any other genus ; but there is a slight 

 difference in the neuration of the hind wings ; moreover the head is 

 slightly broader and the antennae longer than in the European and 

 North-American forms of that genus. It differs from the genus 

 Oeta (Grote) in having veins eight and nine of the fore wings 

 arising from a common pedicle, not separately, as in that genus, 

 agreeing in this respect with Psecadia, where I would place it at 

 least provisionally. 



Psecadia monticola, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 3.) 



Gapite, antennis et pcdpis obscure schistaceis ; alls anticis scMstaceis, 

 lineis punctisque nigris in longitudinem impositis ; margine dor- 

 sali angitsle nigro, piinctis marginaUbus nigris undecim secuto ; 

 posticis fuligineis ; abdomine {excepta basi nigra) et tibiis pos- 

 ticisflavis. 

 Head, antennae, and palpi dark slaty grey, the latter upturned, 

 with the apical joint long and pointed. Fore wings rather shining, 

 dark slaty grey, with black spots and streaks, four on the basal half 

 along the lower edge of the cell; two attenuated streaks on the outer 

 edge of the cell, with three immediately beyond it, of which the 

 upper one is the longest and is sometimes joined to the upper of the 

 two on the cell ; three oblique streaks below the costa, of which the 

 outer one is the shortest and most oblique, the inner one the reverse. 

 These are followed by a series of four spots along the apical portion 

 of the costa, and seven similar spots along the apical margin, reach- 

 ing to the anal angle, from which a narrow black line runs along the 

 dorsal margin to the base. Hind wings dark smoky grey ; the cilia 

 the same except at the abdominal margin and angle, where they are 



