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33. Brycea trisigna = Cistliene trisigna, Wlk. Lep. Het. 



2, p. 534. Hub. — Venezuela. 



34. Brycea transclsa = PhEeochlena transcisa, Wlk. Lep. 



Het. 2, p. 468. i/oi.— Brazil. 

 Walker need not have omitted tlic locality of this 

 species; it is noted in the Register. 



JOSIOIDES, Felder. (PL VIII. fig. 8.) 



35. Josioides myrrha, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1, pi. xxix. 



fig. C 1. Hab.—Via-L 

 This species is referred by Hiibner to Ephestris and by 

 AValker to Chrysoitgo ; the latter author also describes it 

 under the name of Josia repleta. 



36. Josioides abscissa, Hiibn. Sml. Exot. Schm. 1, 



figs. 1—4. IlalK—VavL 

 Three or four distinct things Avere associated by Walker 

 under this name, and the true J. abscissa described as a 

 variety of J. repleta. 



37. Josioides immutata = Josia immutata, Wlk. Lep. 



Het. 2, p. 300. i/f/i.— Brazil. 



38. Josioides fallax, n. sp. Hab. — Brazil. 



Primaries above black; an increasing broad ochre-yellow 

 streak from the base to near the external angle, its edges 

 sharply cut, not angulated but rounded, traversing the 

 median vein and enclosing the greater part of its first two 

 branches; a subapical oblique abbreviated stripe of the 

 same colour; secondaries black, the central area occupied 

 by a broad increasing streak of ochre-yellow, which ter- 

 minates just before the middle of the outer margin; base 

 and abdominal margin of the same colour ; body olivaceous 

 brown, with the tegulas and sides of abdomen ochreous ; 

 antennae black; wings below nearly as above; body silky 

 greyish-brown: expanse of wings 1 inch 4 — 7 lines. 



Allied to the preceding species, with Avhich Mr. Walker 

 confounded it ; the much narrower ochreous areas of both 

 primaries and secondaries readily distinguish it. 



39. Josioides variana. Walker in MS. Hub. — Para. 

 Primaries orange ; the base, borders and an oblique 



subapical belt connecting the costa with the outer border, 

 black ; secondaries black, the cell being covered by a sub- 



