82 Mr. W. Schaus on new Species of 
scales; outer line geminate, angled beyond cell, close to 
median line on inner margin; subterminal geminate near 
costa, suffusing and forming large blotches below vein 5; 
terminal dark spots; fringe grey, spotted with umber-brown. 
Secondaries pale yellow; outer margin broadly black from 
apex to vein 4, then divided by a marginal dentate yellow 
shade to anal angle; a faint median dark line; an irregular 
dark outer line from anal angle to vein 6 ; fringe pale yellow. 
Underneath: primaries dark brownish grey; the base and 
inner margin whitish; a white discal spot; traces of an 
oblique median line and angled outer line. Secondaries pale 
yellow ; a dark discal point; an interrupted outer line; a 
broad marginal dark shade, interrupted by pale yellow at 
apex and between veins 2 and 4, 
Expanse 32 millim. 
Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 
Baniana ypita. 
Head and collar reddish brown. Thorax light brown, 
anteriorly shaded with dark velvety brown. Abdomen dull 
brown. Primaries light brown, irrorated with darker scales ; 
lines reddish brown, inwardly shaded with buff; the inner 
line angled below costa, then slightly curved inwardly to 
middle of inner margin; outer line straight from costa at 
three fourths from base to inner angle; reniform large, pale 
brown, inwardly edged by a semilunar dark line; subterminal 
fine, dark brown, angled five times; terminal dark spots 
between the veins. Secondaries dark brown; fringe yellowish. 
Underneath dark greyish brown, without lines. 
Expanse 32 millim. 
Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 
Allied to B. veluticollis, Hamps. 
Baniana? veluta. 
Antenne thick, with a row of cilia for half their length, 
then nodose and curved, thinner, with shorter cilia to tips. 
Palpi and collar black; vertex and thorax buff. Abdomen 
brownish grey. Primaries buff, darker on outer margin, 
thinly irrorated with dark scales; some violaceous black 
scales at base of inner margin, followed by a large, irregular, 
dark velvety brown trigonate spot, extending just above 
median vein; some whitish and black scales at end of cell 
and just beyond cell; terminal black spots between the veins. 
Secondaries dark greyish brown, paler at base. Underneath: 
