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widening outwardly, the apex depressed, obtuse; smoky white, through minute fuscous dusting on a 
white ground; at the base of the wing is a narrow fuscous costal line; a smoky fuscous discal spot at 
one-third, with a spot in the fold below and beyond it, is followed by a larger ill-defined spot at the end 
of the cell; straight below this is another plical spot, diffused downward to the dorsum and forming the 
lower extremity of a series of smoky fuscous spots, which, running parallel with the termen, form an 
angle pointing to the apex and revert to the costa at about two-thirds; cilia chalk-whitish, peppered, 
especially along their middle, with smoky fuscous. Exp. al. 15-17 mm. Hindwings rather shining, 
whitish cinereous ; cilia white, becoming yellowish white along their base. Abdomen smoky whitish. 
Legs smoky whitish. 
Type 3 (66101) ; 9 (66105) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'T. (66106-8) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft. VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Hight 
specimens. 
3. Cryptolechia caduca, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 10.) 
Antennae ¢ biciliate 1; straw-ochreous, very faintly barred with tawny above. Palpi straw-ochreous, with 
a tawny tinge on the outer side of the basal half of the median joint ; terminal joint shorter than median. 
Head straw-ochreous. Thorax straw-ochreous. Forewings tawny vinous, their purplish gloss modified 
only by a sparse distribution of smoky blackish scales which are concentrated in two discal spots, one at 
the end of the cell, the other half-way between this and the base, and in an outwardly bowed line on the 
outer fourth of the wing, parallel to the apex and termen—this line is but faintly indicated; at the 
extreme base, but not reaching to the costa, is a small, pale straw-ochreous patch, the extreme edge of 
the costa is also slightly tinged with ochreous; cilia cinereous, dusted with smoky fuscous spots around 
the margin at their base. wp. al. 24mm. Hindwings and cilia shining, pale brownish cinereous. 
Abdomen ochreous. Legs ochreous, much smeared with tawny fuscous. 
Type 3 (65899) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT (65900) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Had. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. Champion). 
Two specimens. 
4. Cryptolechia hydara, sp.n. (Tab. IV. fig. 11.) 
Antennae ¢ biciliate 3, slightly serrate; fawn-ochreous. Palpt somewhat slender, recurved, reaching 
considerably above the vertex ; pale fawn-ochreous, the median joint dark brown to two-thirds from its 
base; terminal joint shorter and somewhat more slender than the median, dark brown at its extreme 
apex. Head and Thorax fawn-ochreous. Forewings broad, slightly narrowed towards the base, costa 
arched towards the base and slightly bulged beyond the middle, apex bluntly angular, termen oblique ; 
pale fawn-ochreous, blotched and sprinkled with dark brown; a dark brown spot at the extreme base 
of the costa is followed by a dark brown costal pateh before the middle, with another below and a 
little before it; beyond the middle are about five small dark costal spots along the base of the fawn- 
ochreous cilia, and from the first, second, and last of these the sprinkling of dark brown tends to form 
broken lines of scale-spots, somewhat parallel with the apex and termen, there is also a group of similar 
scales at the end of the cell; terminal cilia slightly paler than the costal, with a brownish shade along 
their base. Eup. al. 20 mm. Hindwings and cilia shining, whitish ochreous. -Abdomen and Legs pale 
fawn-ochreous. 
Type 3 (65901) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. Champion). 
Unique. 
5. Cryptolechia epidesma, sp.n. (Tab. IV. fig. 12.) 
Antennae tawny testaceous, diluted to whitish ochreous on their outer third. Palpi smooth, recurved, 
the terminal joint shorter than the median ; whitish ochreous. Head whitish ochreous. Thorax tawny 
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