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Male. Blackish blue. Head pale yellow. Proboscis black, 

 tawny towards the tip. Palpi black, pale yellow beneath, except 

 towards the tips. Thorax ochraceous. Pectus pale yellow in front. 

 Abdomen with a cinereous-brown apical tuft, which has some short 

 whitish hairs beneath. Fore wings with three broad yellowish white 

 bands, which do not extend to the costa ; first band basal, overspread 

 with ochraceous ; second before the middle ; third opposite the inte- 

 rior angle, to which it nearly extends. Hind wings mostly purplish; 

 fringe blackish cinereous. Length of the body 10 lines; of the 

 wings 24 lines. 



Ceram. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Fam. LITHOSIID^l. 



Genus SPIRIS. 



Spiris funerea. 



funerea, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. 77, pi. 5, f. 5. H.-Sch. Lep. Eur. 

 f. 167. 



Spiris aurata. 

 aurata, Men. Cat, Rais. 264. 



Genus AEDONEA. 



Ardonea secreta. 



Cyaneo-nigra ,* capitis latera postica thoracisque latera antica rosea ; 

 alee subtus striga lata basali costali lutea ; anticce fimbria 

 alba. 



Bluish black. Head on each side behind and thorax on each 

 side in front rosy. Palpi very short. Antennae stout, slightly com- 

 pressed. Abdomen not extending to the interior angle of the hind 

 wings. Legs smooth ; hind tibiae with four short spurs.. Wings 

 elongate ; under side with a short broad luteous costal stripe ex- 

 tending from the base, much longer in the fore wings than in the 

 hind wings. Fore wings much rounded at the tips; exterior border 

 very oblique ; fringe white. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



«. Oajaca, Mexico. From M. Salle's collection. 



