APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES PUBLISHED BY PREVIOUS 

 WRITERS, AND NOT IDENTIFIED BY THE AUTHOR. 



1. Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences Phil, Vol. VI, Part II. 

 Page 83. Ortalis ligata. 



Wings quadrifasciate with fuscous. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body blackish ; head ferruginous, tinged with glaucous behind 

 and on the vertex; thorax blackish-plumbeous; wings white, 

 subopaque, with four fuscous bands; the first a little oblique, 

 across the neck of the wing ; second from the tips of the medi- 

 astinal and post costal nervures, and proceeding a little obliquely, 

 so as to be bounded posteriorly by the middle cross-nervure ; 

 third, perpendicular to the costal margin and covering the poste- 

 rior cross-nervure; fourth, terminal, slightly connected on the 

 costal edge with the third ; poisers white ; tergum coppery -black ; 

 feet black ; knees and tarsi ferruginous. Length three-twentieths 

 of an inch. 



[Belongs very probably to the genus Bivellia, but it will be 

 difficult to decide to which species, on account of the great 

 similitude between the species of that genus. — Loew.~] 



2. Rob. Desvoidy, Myodaires. 



Page 715. Meckelia philadelphica. 



Minor M. eleganti ; pedes fulvi, tibiis nigricantibus ; alae 

 flavescentes, unica macula subfusca. 



Plus petite que la Meckelia elegans ; frontaux, antennes, face, 

 rouges ; optiques d'un gris rougeatre ; corselet d'un brun-gris ; 



