1892.] SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 329 



Langsdorfia POLYBIA. 



Light greyish brown, the primaries with a large whitish space 

 occupying the outer portion of the wing; apex and outer margin, 

 however, greyish brown ; a quadrate whitish space below the median 

 vein ; here and there a few dark striae. Underneath, the second- 

 aries almost entirely whitish, and on all the wings widely separated 

 dark striae. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. 



Allied to Langsdorfia forreri, Druce. 



GrlVIRA TECMESSA. 



Primaries above violaceous brown, with interrupted transverse 

 rows of small darker spots ; the basal half of the inner margin 

 broadly velvety brown. Secondaries whitish, the outer margins 

 broadly blackish. Length of body 14 mm. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. 



G-IVIRA PHILOMELA. 



Primaries whitish grey, darker along the inner margin and at the 

 apex, and crossed by numerous short dark lines ; a black spot at 

 the end of the cell. Secondaries dark grey. Body light grey, the 

 base of the abdomen somewhat darker. Length of body 13 mm. 



Expanse 37 mm. 



Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. 



Zeuzera ramosa. 



Male. Primaries above with the costal margin dark brown from 

 near the base to the apex ; a light brownish space occupying tlie 

 cell and extending somewhat beyond it ; from the middle of the 

 median vein to the centre of the outer margin an irregular black 

 line ; the base, inner margin, and outer margin otherwise white 

 with transverse black striae. Secondaries above white, with a few 

 blackish striae along the outer margin. Body whitish, speckled 

 with black. 



Expanse 41 mm. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro. 



Closely allied to Eudoxyla strigillatu, Felder. 



Fam. Hepialid^. 



Dalaca prytanes. 



Primaries greyish brown, with some white streaks along the costa; 

 a short, oblique, dark brown basal streak edged with whitish; a 

 dark brown shade, enclosing some small silvery marks, from the end 

 of the cell to near the inner angle ; a submarginal, transverse, 

 brownish band, darker where contiguous to the above mentioned 

 dark shade; the primaries otherwise crossed by indistinct transverse 



