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with a cuneiform 



flat the species is perfectly new, and that its structural pecu- 

 liarities warrant its being regarded as the type of a hitherto 

 unknown genus. 



Pyramocera, gen. nov. 

 Lymantrice affine, costa autem alarum anticarum longiore, an- 

 tennis longioribus, ad basin latioribus, gradatim ad apicem pyra- 

 midatis, pectinibus longissimis cirratis : corpus alseque subtus 

 lanuginese. Gren. typ. P.fuliginea. 



Pyramocera ettligunea, sp. n. 



S . Wings above smoky brown ; primaries 

 white patch enclosing two black 

 spots within the outer half of 

 the discoidal cell; fringe spotted 

 here and there with pale buff: 

 thorax smoky brown ; sides of 

 stamen of antennae and collar 

 carmine, remainder of antennae 

 brown internally and testaceous 

 externally ; abdomen carmine, 

 with a dorsal series of blackish 

 spots ; centre of anal tuft black. 

 Wings below smoky brown, with 

 the fringe as above : primaries 

 with a spot on the costa and 

 an indistinct interno- median 

 streak pale yellowish ; base of 

 a whitish spot before the middle of the costa : body below black, 

 an orange spot in front of each antenna ; the palpi, legs, and 

 venter banded with orange ; collar carmine ; femora carmine in 

 front. Expanse of wings 3 inches 3 lines. 



Eianarantsoa. Type in Brit. Mus. 



Head and antennae. Twice nat. size. 



costa orange : secondaries with 



Notice of Crustaceans collected by P. Geddes, Esq., at Vera Cruz. 

 By Edward J. Miers, P.L.S., E.Z.S. 



[Eead April 1, 1880.] 



Mr. P. Geddes has kindly presented to the collection of the 

 British Museum a few Crustaceans collected by him at Yera 

 Cruz on the eastern coast of Mexico, which appear worthy of 

 a notice in the Society's Journal. They include ; — (1) a female 



