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CATALOGUE OF 
not extending 1 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 nigris ; 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. 
Foem. Lcete flava ; palpi caput paullo superantes , articulo So parvo ; 
alee ochraceo dense conspersee , 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 ; posticee 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 ochraceous, 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. 
a, b . Venezuela.^ From Mr. Dyson’s collection. 
