

VALENTINIA. 149 
shaded at the extreme base with pale brownish, which vanishes outward in a hoary whitish band at one- 
third, angulate outward at its middle; beyond this the pale brown shading is renewed with a slight 
speckling of greyish brown, or greyish fuscous, spreading over the remainder of the wing, but leaving 
three spots of the darker shade, one on the disc a little before the middle of the wing, another at the 
end of the cell, and a third, straight below it, at the lower angle of the cell, all distinctly visible ; around 
the termen and apex the greyish brown or brownish fuscous shading has a tendency to break into narrow 
spots, to the number of seven or eight, before the hoary-speckled pale cinereous cilia: 3g, with the discal 
and marginal spots less distinct, the whole wing-colouring being somewhat more blurred and uniform. 
Exp. al. 15-17 mm. Hindwings pale greyish brown; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen 
brownish cinereous. Legs with alternate bands of hoary and greyish brown rough scaling to the end of 
the tibiae ; hind tarsi pale brownish cinereous, the first joint slightly hairy. 
Type Q (65526); ¢$ (65527) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (7. H. Smith). Two specimens, 
Allied to 5979 glandulella Riley, but with somewhat narrower wings; it should 
also be closely allied to guintancella Dietz, but is a larger species. 
2. Valentinia neptes, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 17.) 
Antennae § minutely biciliate, with strong notch and pecten; very pale fawn. Palpi with the terminal 
joint fully half the length of the median ; very pale fawn. Headand Thorax very pale fawn. Forewings 
very pale fawn, with a slight streaky shading of pale fawn-grey, and three minute fuscous dots in the 
usual position, the two at the end of the cell being directly one above the other, no plical spot is visible ; 
around the apex are a few very obscure fawn-grey streaks at the base of the whitish ochreous cilia. 
Exp. al. 16 mm. Hindwings pale grey, with a scarcely perceptible tinge of fawn; cilia very pale 
fawn. Abdomen and Legs very pale fawn. 
Type & (65528) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: gumrrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (Hf. A. Smith). Unique. 
In appearance this species is almost indistinguishable from 0982 Holcocera 
livorella Z., a Texan form with broader hindwings and different neuration. 
3. Valentinia bromeliae, sp. n. 
Antennae ochreous. Palpi ochreous, dusted with purplish fuscous on their outer sides. Head and Thorax 
ochreous. Forewings purplish fuscous, mixel with ochreous, or, perhaps more correctly, ochreous, 
almost entirely obliterated by a purplish fuscous suffusion ; a short basal patch, widened on the costa, 
but narrowed to the dorsum, where it reaches only half-way to the flexus, remains ochreous without 
perceptible suffusion, but the only other parts of the wing in which the ochreous ground-colour becomes 
visible, except as a generally distributed slight mixture, is in the immediate vicinity of a black diseal 
spot, before the middle, and immediately preceding the upper one of a pair of black spots at the end of 
the cell; cilia olivaceous bronzy grey. xp. al. 18-14 mm. Hindwings brownish grey; cilia bronzy 
grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs ochreous; hind tibiae and tarsi with bands of dark fuscous 
suffusion on their outer sides. ; 
Type 2 (5866); o (5867); PI'T. (5868-9 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PTT (383645-8) Mus. 
Wism, BM.] | 
Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Cordova, ® Bromelia sp., excl. 2-8. V. 1908 (F. Anad) 
Kight specimens, bred from débris at base of leaves of Bromelia. 
