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31. pusilla is of a smokj'-black colour, the primaries with a central dif- 

 fused bluish patch extending from near the base to beyond the cell ; 

 the head and thorax are spotted with white ; and the abdomen is me- 

 tallic blue-green at the sides and on the basal segments below ; the 

 last three or four segments are laterally margined below with white ; 

 the pectus is spotted with green : expanse of wings 28 millims. 



3. M. TARSALis = Horamia tarsalis, Walker, Lep. Het.v'u. p. 1633. 

 ? (Stevens). Type, B.M. 



4. M. oiDiPUs, Boisduval, Consid. Lep. Guat. p. 81. 

 Guatemala. 



5. M. CLAViPES, Boisduval, Consid. L4p. Guat. p. 81. 



Mexico [Boisd.), Venezuela. B.M. 



6. M. TIBIALIS, n. sp. 



Head black, frons, palpi, and crest orange ; autennse black with orange 

 tips ; pterj'godes black-brown, margined in front and internally with 

 orange ; collar black-brown, with a pale yellow dot at each side, and a 

 third (divided) in the centre ; thorax dark purplish brown, with a 

 paler line on each side, two orange liturae forming an imperfect semi- 

 circle in front, and two orange dots behind ; basal segment and drums 

 of abdomen greyish brown internallj% bright ochreous externally, a 

 central oblong brown-edged white spot at base ; other segments shi- 

 ning slate-colour margined with orange, second segment white laterally 

 and below ; anus orange : wings dull rusty brown, secondaries with 

 basal half dull orange ; wings below paler, more orange in tint, espe- 

 cially towards the base ; pectus dark brown with lateral white spots, 

 legs orange, with the knees and proximal ends of the tibiae black; ab- 

 domen orange, third to fifth segments slate-coloured internally : ex- 

 panse of wings 34 millims. 



ll&iti {Tweedie). Type, B.M. 



Allied to M. clavipes. 



GeDUs HoEAMA, mihner. 



1. HoRAMA INCERTA, Walker, Lep. Het. vii. p. 162/. 



? [Milne). Type, B.M. 



This is such a bad example as to be almost unrecognizable. 



2. H. DIFFUSA, Grote, P. E. S. Phil. 1866, p. 181. 



Horamia {sic) pretellus, Herrich.-Sch. Corr.-Blatt Regensb. p. 113 



(1866). 

 Cuba. 



