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testateous, the base of the tegulae whitish ochreous. Yorewings tawny testaceous, shining with a 
vinous gloss, the costa and termen narrowly pale straw-ochreous, the costal line somewhat widened at 
the base; a faint indication of a shade-spot at the end of the cell; cilia pale straw-ochreous. zp. al. 
14 mm. Hindwings pale yellowish brown; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous. 
Legs pale cinereous. 
Type Q (65902) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Sinith). Unique. 
This species can be easily recognised by its pale costa and cilia contrasting with the 
dark forewings. 
6. Cryptolechia erythema, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 13.) 
Antennae whitish ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous above; basal joint rosy ochreous. Palpi rosy ochraceous, 
the median joint with a greyish brown shade externally on its basal half. Head and Thoraw rosy 
ochraceous. Forewings rosy, with an ochreous tinge towards the base in some lights, the colour 
becoming more strongly pink, narrowly along the costa and more widely around the termen; the 
extreme edge of the costa is ochreous, with a black spot at the base; a smoky black spot lies in the 
middle of the fold, another on the cell above and before it, and at the end of the cell is a stronger black 
spot surrounded by a smoky fuscous suffusion extending downward, and obliquely upward toward the 
apex; a line of smoky blackish scales, tending obliquely outward from the costa, forms an angle on 
vein 7, reverting parallel with the termen to the dorsum before the tornus; cilia rosy ochraceous, with 
a fuscous line along their base; underside carmine, ochreous on the costa and towards the dorsum. 
Exp. al. 20-22 mm. Hindwings yellowish ochreous, with a strong rosy tint about the apex, extending 
through the yellowish ochreous cilia; underside ochreous, becoming rosy carmine about the apex. 
Abdomen pale ochreous. Zegs whitish ochreous; the anterior and median pairs suffused with dark 
fuscous. . 
Type Q (65903, Rio Maria Linda) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—GuatemaLa: Rio Maria Linda, 500 ft., 
III. 1881 (G. C. Champion). South America—Braziu: Para: Para, 17. Il. 1893 
(A. Schulz). Two specimens. . | 
7. Cryptolechia ancorata, sp.n. (Tab. IV. fig. 14.) 
Antennae pale ochreous, smeared with reddish towards the base. Palpi long, slender, recurved to the front 
of the thorax; rosy brownish on the long median joint, distinctly tinged with red above on the shorter 
terminal joint. Head and Zhorax brownish flesh-colour. orewings brownish flesh-colour, narrowly 
margined with dark tawny reddish, except oa the outer two-thirds of the dorsum; a diffused, triangular 
patch of this colour on the costa at one-third, pointing directly downward, terminates in a dark 
transverse spot at the outer extremity of the cell, forming part of a very oblique narrow band arising on 
the costa in a second triangular patch and running back to the dorsum at one-third from the base; 
from this band a narrower line of the same colour, leaving the apex of the costal triangle, is bowed 
outward running parallel to the costa, termen, and tornus, until it reaches the dorsum at about three- 
fourths from the base; cilia dark tawny reddish ; underside rich rosy. Ewp. al. 26 mm. . Hindwings 
pale straw-ochreous, with a rich rosy tinge beyond the middle; cilia shining, pale straw-ochreous, rosy 
around the apex; underside pale straw-ochreous. Abdomen shining, pale straw-ochreous; whitish 
beneath. Legs shining, pale straw-ochreous, 
Type Q (8284 Wlsm. Det, 1893) Mus. J. de Joannis, 
Hab. Costa Rica. 
This very distinct species is unique in the collection of M. l’Abbé J. de Joannis. 
