350 MR. E. DUKINFIELD JONES ON 



a whitish anterior bar ; vertex and antennce shaft white, pectina- 

 tions ochreous ; thorax green ; abdomen white ; dorsum rosy 

 brown. Wings emerald-green irrorated with darker green scales. 

 Fore wings : costa tawny yellow ; a large black discocellular spot 

 with white centre and surrounded with Avhite, the white scales 

 having rosy reflection ; termen crenulate, dark purple-broAvn ; 

 cilia rosy brown, white on the interspaces. Hind wings : a 

 smaller discocellular spot. Underside white. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



TACHyCHLORA FLORA, sp. n. (PL III. fig. 22.) 



Male. — Palpi white; pectus and fore trochanters green; legs 

 ochreous white ; f rons green, anteriorly white ; vertex white ; 

 back of head green ; antennae shaft white, pectinations ochreous ; 

 abdomen green at base, segments 4 to 6 grey, anal segments 

 white. Fore wings emerald-green ; costa white ; a minute 

 black discocellular spot ; a subterminal line of minute brown 

 spots on the interspaces, the one above the discal fold larger than 

 the rest ; cilia Avhite. Hind wings emerald-green ; a large ante- 

 medial yellow space from vein 1 to subcostal nervure, outwardly 

 nearly covered by a rosy -brown patch inwardly excavated in cell 

 and containing dark discocellular bar ; a pcstmedial series of 

 minute brown spots on the interspaces, the one above discal fold 

 the largest. Underside white, a very conspicuous discocelkilar 

 bar on hind wings. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Fam. U RANiiD^. 



Epiplema ornata, sp. n. (Ph III. fig. 23.) 



Female. — Palpi and frons fuscous brown ; legs brown, the fore 

 pair suflfused with fuscous, mid- and hind -tarsi ferruginous 

 brown ; vertex of head and body gi'eyish brown ; antennae shaft 

 ringed Avith purplish. Fore wings ochreous grey, the costal area 

 suffused with greyish brown to postmedial line, the suffusion 

 expanding downwards on medial area, forming a triangle with 

 apex at vein 3 defined inwardly by a dark line from cell to post- 

 medial line on vein 2 ; a fine dark wavy indistinct antemedial 

 line excurved through cell.; postmedial line wavy, inwardly 

 ferruginous, outwardly dark, followed by Vvdiitish shade ; outer 

 area grey Avith light strigulate suffusion of greyish broAAai ; a fine 

 dark subterminal line and ferruginous suffusion ; cilia light 

 brown Avith dark centre line. Hind Avings ochreous grey ; ante- 

 medial line very dark, slightly AvaA'y, forming a right angle on 

 fold in cell ; a medial lii^ie parallel Avith antemedial from inner 

 margin to vein 4, thence slightly diverging to excaA'ation on 



