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CHALCOSnD^ . — UEANITD^ . 
EuBchema bellona. (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) 
Euschcma bellona, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 405. n. 2 (1854). 
Basal half of wings golden yellow, spotted with black ; external half purplish black : 
primaries with two series of semitransparent white discal spots, partially washed with grey. 
Body above golden yellow ; thorax banded and spotted with black ; abdomen banded with 
gi'eyish ; below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. 
Monlmein. 
OTEOEDA, Walker. 
Otroeda occidentis. (Plate XIV. fig. 6.) 
■ Otroeda occidentis, Walher, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 403. n. 2 (1854). 
Primaries dark brown ; the veins at the base, an oblique central band, a shorter tapering 
band beyond the cell, and a submarginal series of six spots, white : secondaries white ; a very 
broad external black-brown border, edged within towards the abdominal margin with tawny ; 
a submarginal and a marginal series of white spots : thorax brown, longitudinally banded 
with white ; abdomen white ; below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. 
Sierra Leone. 
Otroeda vesperina. (Plate XIV. fig. 7.) 
Otroeda vespcrina, Walher, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 403. n. 3 (1854). 
Primaries whitish ochreous ; a series of radiating basal streaks ; two oblique transverse 
central bands, the apical area, and outer border to near external angle, dark brown j a sub- 
marginal series of six white spots : secondaries dull ochreous ; a rather broad external black 
border with submarginal and marginal series of white spots : thorax black, spotted and longi- 
tudinally striped with creamy ochreous ; abdomen sordid ochreous, with a dorsal black streak ; 
below nearly as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 
Congo. 
URANIID^. 
NYCTALEMON, Dalman. 
Nyctalemon excavatus. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 
Nyctalemon excavatus, WalTcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 9. n. 5 (1854). 
Wings dark brown, crossed by numerous transverse, undulating, subparallel lines, and 
two similarly undulating broad brown bands ; a series of submarginal black elongated 
markings, edged with whitish; secondaries with three large oceliated markings, two in the 
tail and one subanal ; anal area rosy ferruginous, becoming whitish externally, and crossed 
by two submarginal black Uturse. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 to 5 lines. 
Haiti. 
