20 
NOCTU1D-1'. 
waved dark lines before the postmedial line, which is double, 
the inner line black, the outer indistinct, minutely waved ; 
subterminal line indistinct, pale, dentate, defined on each 
side by minute blackish streaks on the veins ; a waved black 
line before termen ; the underside dark red-brown, with 
slight dark discoidal spot and faint curved postmedial line. 
Hab. Guatemala, S. Geronimo (Champion), 1 £ type, 
Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 36 millim. 
Genus MERIDYRIAS, nov. 
Tvpe, M. progenies, Guen. (Yrias) Noct. iii. p. 23, pi. 15. 
f. 10 (1852). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, 
the 3rd moderate and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with 
tuft of hair above ; e\res large, round ; antennae of male 
with cilia and bristles ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the fore 
femora of male typically with fringe of large scales and hair 
on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal series of small crests.. 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 
and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one- 
third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Meridyrias violascens, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed with red- 
brown ; palpi ochreous with blackish marks at sides of 2nd and 
3rd joints ; frontal tuft blackish ; pectus and legs ochreous ; 
abdomen with the crests blackish at tips, the ventral surface 
ochreous. Fore wing red-brown mixed with ochreous white 
and tinged with silvery purple ; subbasal line indistinct, 
double, red-brown, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 
line indistinct, double, red-brown, sinuous, bent inwards to 
inner margin ; reniform dark brown defined at sides by white, 
its inner edge oblique, its outer constricted at middle ; an 
indistinct dark medial line defined on outer side by whitish, 
excurved beyond the cell, then oblique and waved ; post- 
medial line blackish defined on outer side by whitish, forming 
a small spot at costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 
4, then oblique, some alternating white and black streaks 
beyond it on costa ; a pale dentate subterminal line with 
slight black marks beyond it towards apex ; a fine waved 
black line before termen. Hind wing red-brown mixed with 
