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not extending beyond the frontal tuft. Wings slightly and partly 

 clouded with brown, speckled with black ; exterior line blackish, 

 whitish-interlined, slightly zigzag; space beyond mostly clouded 

 with dark purplish cinereous ; a black discal point. Fore wings 

 with an interior blackish whitish-interlined band, which is bent in 

 front; exterior border hardly excavated in front. Hind wings with 

 the exterior border very convex. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



The palpi and wings of this species differ much from those of 

 the typical form of the genus. The two following species also recede 

 from the normal structure. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



South America. 



3. Hyperythra? croceata. 



Ochraceo-ferruginea ; alee anticce fascia exteriore maculari fascia- 

 que submarginali postice abbreviata niqris ; posticce fascia 

 discali nigra. 



Phalaena-Geometra croceata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 137, pi. 360, 



f.F. 

 Pseudopanthera crocearia, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 295, 2856. 



Surinam. 



4. Hyperythra Syctaria. 



Fcem. Lceteflava ; palpi caput paullo superantes, articulo 3o parvo ; 

 al(B ochraceo dense conspersce, linea exteriore ochracea recta 

 obliqua incompleta, linea submarginali e punctis elongatis ; 

 anticce linea puncta alba nigro notata includente maculisque 

 duabus albis nigro marginatis terminata, linea interiore och- 

 racea indistincta, margine exteriore subconvexo ; posticce mar- 

 gine exteriore subjlexo. 



Female. Bright yellow, paler beneath. Palpi extending a 

 little beyond the head ; third joint minute, conical. Wings thickly 

 speckled with bright ochraceo us, which hue forms a straight oblique 

 incomplete exterior line ; a submarginal line composed of elongated 

 black points on the veins. Fore wings with the line containing some 

 white black-marked points, and ending on each border in a white 

 black-bordered spot ; an interior indistinct ochraceous line ; exterior 

 border slightly convex. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly 

 bent. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 18 — 20 lines. 



o, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



