1893.] SPECIES or lepidopteba hetee.ocera. 299 



palest near the base of both wings ; a brown spot in the cell ; both 

 wings crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner 

 margin by a dark brown line, edged on the inner side with a 

 narrow fawn-coloured line, and with several indistinct waved brown 

 lines ; the outer portion of both wings thickly irrorated with black 

 scales, the fringes pale brown. 'Underside very similar to the 

 upperside, but without the straight lines crossing the wings, and 

 with a white spot at the apex of the primaries. Head, antennae, 

 front of the thorax, and collar black ; a tuft of hair at the base of 

 the antennsB yellow; thorax and tegulae greyish fawn-colour; 

 abdomen yellowish fawn-colour. Legs, the coxae and femora 

 yellowish fawn-colour ; the tibia and tarsus black. 



Expanse 4| inches. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {M. Trujillo). 



I have placed this insect in the genus Tagora with considerable 

 doubt, and probably when the male is known it will require a new 

 genus. 



Fam. L I M A o D I D .i;. 

 Scopelodes, Westw. 

 Scopelodes whitelti, sp. n. 



Primaries silky fawn-colour, the outer half of the wing the 

 palest, the costal margin brownish at the base. Secondaries 

 pinkish fawn-colour, the fringes of both \^-ings yellowish brown, 

 the underside of both wings yellowish fawu-colour. Antennae, 

 palpi, and front of head dark brown ; head, thorax, and base of the 

 abdomen yellowish fawn-colour; the abdomen and legs fawn- 

 colour. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Hab. British Guiana, Essequibo Eiver ( Whitely, Mits, D.). 



Allied to S. sericea, Butler, from N. India. 



Fam. Zeeenid^. 

 NiPTEEiA, Gruen. 



NiPTEEIA CHTHOIfIA, sp. n. 



Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform smoky brown. Second- 

 aries slightly paler at the base. Underside : primaries pale brown, 

 the costal margin banded with dark brown, a dark brown streak 

 at the end of the cell, beyond which a cream-coloured line crosses 

 the wing from the costal to the inner margin ; a submarginal waved 

 cream-coloured line extends from the apex to the anal angle. 

 Secondaries pale brown ; the costal margin, a \^ide streak from the 

 base along the inner margin, and a large spot near the anal angle 

 dark brown ; a waved creamy- white line crosses the wing beyoud 

 the middle from the costal to the inner margin ; the fringes of 

 both wings pale brown. The head, antennae, tegulae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs dark brown. 



Expanse Ig inch. 



