318 MR. w. SCHAUS ON NEW [May 3, 



Adding to this list the Royal Antelope (Nanotragus pygmcBus), 

 said by Temminck to be possibly the original of xliii. 2, and the 

 specimens asserted by Sundevall to bs perhaps those of xliii. 

 1 & 2 \ we are able to account, with the Lidth de Jeude specimens 

 now in the British Museum, for a very large proportion of Albert 

 Seba's historical collection of Mamraaha. 



3. Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera Heterocera 

 from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. — Part II.'^ By W. Schaus, 

 F.Z.S. 



[Keceived April 29, 1892.] 



The following descriptions are all taken from specimens in my 

 own collection, and, with the exception of those from Peru, they 

 were collected by myself. 



Fam. Lasiocampid^. 

 Ormiscodes opis. 



Primaries above reddish brown ; a basal straight, and an outer 

 oblique, transverse grey baud ; a marginal wavy whitish shade ; a 

 long white streak at the end of the cell. Secondaries reddish brown; 

 a median transverse greyish baud and a submarginal dark brown 

 shade. Underneath brown, the outer portion of the wings crossed 

 by four bands of whitish scales. Head and thorax reddish brown. 

 Abdomen black dorsalh'^, whitish between the segments ; anal seg- 

 ment red ; underneath reddish brown. 



Expanse 100 mm. $. 



Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. 



LONOMIA CARNICA. 



Male. Above red, the wings crossed from the apex of the pri- 

 maries to the middle of the inner margin ou the secondaries by a 

 broad black line, divided by a greyish shade ; on the primaries two 

 discal spots, the anterior one blackish, the posterior one white. 

 Underneath pale brownish red, with broad, marginal, paler shades ; 

 the transverse line very narrow and indistinct, inwardly shaded with 

 white ; on the primaries two white discal spots ; ou the secondaries 

 a black discal spot circled with white ; a large black spot at the 

 apex. 



Expanse 80 mm. 



Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. 



Preptos, nov. gen 

 Antennse minutely pectinated, and with ong tufts of hairs at 



' Pecora, p. 303 (1847). I have to thank Prof. W.Leche, of Stockholm, for 

 informatiou about the present condition of these specimens. See also Brooke, 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 637. 



^ For Part I. see above, p. 272. 



