380 MB. E. m'lachlan on the 



is practically certain that several supposed species should rank 

 only as synonyms. 



I add the descriptions of several species that appear to be new: — 



Embia Batesi, sp. n. Nigra vel nigro-picea. Prothorax flavo- 

 ferrugineus. Antennae nigrse, 20-articulat8e, articulis quinis 

 ultimis flavidis, pallide pilosis. Alse breves, latse, nigro-fuscse, 

 albido S-striatse. Long. corp. 7 millim. Expans. alar. 41 millim. 



Sab. Brasilia {Bates). 



Black or blackish fuscous with a piceous tinge, the prothorax 

 above and beneath, and the head beneath (excepting at the sides) 

 pale reddish yellow. Antennae with 20 joints, black, clothed with 

 grey hairs ; but the apical 5 joints are pale yellowish clothed with 

 pale hairs, the tip of the terminal joint fuscesceut; the 3rd 

 joint almost as long as the 1st and 2nd united ; the 4th and 5th 

 short, subraoniliform ; the succeeding joints more or less elongate- 

 oval. Maxillary palpi black, short, the 3rd to 5th joints some- 

 what ovate. Legs blackish, with a piceous tinge, clothed with 

 greyish hairs ; coxae yellowish. Abdomen also with a piceous 

 tinge, the hairs blackish ; caudal appendages long, especially the 

 2nd joint, which is strongly flattened,obtuse, and obscure yellovvish, 

 with black hairs. "Wings short and very broad, especially the 

 posterior pair, in which the apex is almost semicircular ; they are 

 dark fuscous ; the membrane set with minute blackish tubercles ; 

 five very narrow whitish longitudinal lines ; neuration fuscous, 

 but the subcosta and radius distinctly dark claret-colour ; four 

 nervules between the radius and the upper branch of the sector, 

 discoidal cell broad, closed ; and there is a transverse nervule 

 below this cell connecting it with the upper cubitus ; in the poste- 

 rior wings the discoidal area has two nervules. 



I have one example collected by Mr. Bates on the Amazons. 

 I do not think it can be identical with Olyntha ruficapilla, Burm. 

 (of which Embia Klugi, Eamb., is thought to be a synonym) ; for 

 the latter has the head, as well as the prothorax, wholly reddish. 

 It is the broadest-winged species known to me. 



E. Salyini, sp. n. Atra, subopaca. Antennae (mutilatae) cas- 

 taneae, fusco hirsutae; cuticulo basali fusco-nigro. Alae angus- 

 tatae, nigro-fuliginosae, albido 5-striatae ; venis fuscescentibus. 

 Long. Corp. circa 7^ millim. Exp. alar. circ. 13 millim. 



Hab. Amer. Centr. 



Body deep black, subopaque, very sparingly clothed with black 



