LEPIDOPTKliA or THE FAMILY ZXGJBXIDiE. 375 



a genus of Aves twenty years before it was characterized as a 

 group of Lepidopterous insects. 



2. I. FLAvrcoRNis= Sphinx flavicornis, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 104. 



Glaucopis (Isanthreue) vespoides, Walker, Lep. Het. i. p. 155. 



Villa Nova and Para {Bates). B.M. 



3. I. USTRINA, Hlihner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. figs. 493, 494. 



Brazd {Mornay Sf Becker). B.M. 



4. I. iNCENDjARiA = Glaucopis incendiaria, HUbner, Samml. pi. 166. 

 Glaucopis (Isantlirene) flavicornis, Walker (nee Fabr.), L. H. p. 155. 



5. America. B.M. 



5. I. MAXIMA, n. sp. 



Nearly allied to I. incendiaria, but larger, with smaller yellow spots on 

 the shoulders, only the first three segments of abdomen laterally 

 spotted with yellow, dorsal bluish spots larger, ventral white spots 

 rather smaller ; apical black area of primaries decidedly larger : ex- 

 panse of wings 57 milliras. 



Rio (/. P. G. Smith). Type, B.M. 



6. I. PERBOSC£i = Glaucopis perboscii, Guerin, Ic. Reg. Anim. p. 50!. 

 Cam peachy Bay. 



7. I- BASiFERA, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. F6. 

 Bogota.^ 



Seems allied to / incencliaria. 



Genus HoM(EOCERA, FeWer. PI. XXVII. fig. 6. 



1. HoMCEOCERA CRASS A, Feldcr, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv. tab. cii. 

 fig. 26. 



2. "H. jANSONis:=Gymnelia jansouis, Butler, Lep. Exot. pi. Ixi. 



fig. 17. 



Cartago, Costa Rica {Van Patten). Type, B.M. 



3. H. Strbtchii, n. sp. 



Body golden yellow, back of head black, enclosing two large metallic 

 blue-greeu spots; auteunas black (5 with a central yellow streakj ; 

 collar with a black spot on each side; pterygodes with a black margin 

 all round ; prothuriix with two parallel clavate central black stripes 

 enclosing metallic green spots in the clavus ; nictathorax with two 

 black-encircled metallic-green spots ; hind margin of thorax black ; 

 basal segment of abdomen narrowly edged behind with black, other 

 segments broadly margined behind with black, two metallic blue- 

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