_Upper Side._ Antennæ yellow brown. Head olive green, with a cream-coloured stripe running on each side to the wings. Thorax and abdomen olive green; the latter having six small cream-coloured spots on each side near the anus. Anterior wings entirely olive green. Posterior orange-coloured, edged with black. _Under Side._ Tongue spiral. Sides, breast, and abdomen paler green than on the upper side. Wings next the shoulders dark orange, but green at the extremities. Posterior wings greenish and mottled, the fringes being yellow. ÆGERIA? PLUMIPES. Plate II. fig. 3. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia? FAMILY: Ægeriidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. ÆGERIA, _Fabr._? Sesia, _Latr._ Sphinx, _Drury_. ÆGERIA? PLUMIPES. Alis cyaneis, abdomine fulvo-cingulato, apice barbato; pedibus fulvis, femorum posticorum apice plumoso. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Sphinx plumipes, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. HABITAT: Africa. _Upper Side._ Antennæ black, smallest at the tips. Eyes grey and shining. Palpi black. Head and thorax black. Abdomen black, with orange-coloured rings; the extremity being very small and long, and furnished with a tuft of hairs expanding like a star. _Under Side._ Tongue spiral. Head and palpi orange. Breast black. Legs orange, furnished with long tibial spurs; the two hinder thighs having tufts of black hairs issuing from the tips above. Abdomen orange, sides black. PLATE III. [Illustration] COSSUS LAOCOON. Plate III. fig. 1. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Hepialidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. COSSUS, _Fabr._ Phalæna (Bombyx), _Linn._ COSSUS LAOCOON. Alis rufo-badiis, apice obscurioribus maculâ mediâ albidâ, nigro punctatâ, lunulisque submarginalibus pallidis. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Phalæna (Attacus) Laocoon, _Drury_. _Cramer_, _pl._ 117. B.? HABITAT: Rio Janeiro, Brazil. {4}_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown, and filiform. Head brown, with two white spots beneath the antennæ. Thorax cream-coloured, with a red-brown spot arising at the head. Abdomen red-brown, with cream-coloured rings. Wings red-brown; the anterior ending along the external edges in a greyish brown, where there is a row of faint cream-coloured crescents; at the shoulders there is also a round cream-coloured spot, and in the middle, near the anterior edges, is another large patch of that colour, with darker marks thereon; several other spots are likewise dispersed on these wings. Posterior wings, along the external edges, grey brown; but next the body cream-coloured, with a row of faint cream-coloured crescents along the bottom, and two small spots on the abdominal edges.