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annulations dying off in a series of lateral spots. Palpi small, drooping; cinereous. Head and Thorac 
dark tawny fuscous, with greenish and purplish reflections. Forewings elongate, narrow; dark tawny 
purplish, with three bright steel-blue metallic transverse lines beyond the middle; the first, from the 
commencement of the costal to the beginning of the dorsal cilia; the third, rather more than half-way 
from this to the apex of the wing; the second midway between them; the outer line is broken toward 
the dorsum into spots lying between the veins, each tinged with rosy-red, and a series of about five 
steel-blue spots lies nearer to the apex, of which the three lower spots (scarcely above the middle of 
the termen) are also tinged with rosy—there is also a very small spot at the apex; cilia reddish grey, 
with a brown line along their base. wp. al. 13-17 mm. Hindwings dark tawny fuscous ; cilia 
_ greyish. Abdomen dark tawny fuscous. Legs purplish, the hind tarsi white above. 
Type & (400165) Roths. Coll. (Fldr. Coll.) BM. 

Hab. Central America® [= “Australia” ]!'—Mexico: VERA CRUZ: Coatepec (J. Brooks) 
—GUATEMALA: ALTA VERA PAZ: Cubilguitz, 1050 ft., III. 1880 (G. C. Champion). 
This species is wrongly recorded from “ Australia (Angas)” in the Reise Novara. 
9. Adela astrella, sp. n. (Tab. X. fig. 34.) 
Antennae.¢, 3, somewhat enlarged, with appressed coppery scales at the base, silvery whitish beyond. 
Palpi short, dependent, with bristles projecting beyond the terminal joint; metallic. Haustellum long, 
brassy golden at the base. Head somewhat hairy, black; face brassy greenish. Thorax brassy 
greenish. Forewings shining brassy to beyond the middle, having a greenish tinge, except toward the 
costa where they become coppery; beyond the middle is a pale, shining, ochreous transverse band, 
bending outward at its middle and margined externally by a line of rich purple scales (attenuated and 
nearly evanescent except toward the margins) carrying shining golden and silvery scales along its 
outer edge; beyond this is a costal streak of silvery greenish metallic scales, margined very narrowly 
with purple, and extending parallel with the preceding band as far as half the width of the wing, then 
broken and reproduced to the dorsum, above which is a spot of rich purple scales—only on its outer 
side; a similar costal streak precedes the apex, on which is a series of four silvery spots along the 
margin, each associated with a few purplish scales, the intermediate spaces between these streaks being 
of the same shining ochreous colour as the ultramedian band; cilia bright brassy metallic. wp. al. 
13 mm. Hindwings purplish grey; cilia rather shining brassy. Abdomen shining fuscous, slightly 
bronzy. Legs cupreous, with long hairs above the hind tibiae; the tarsi also cupreous, with shining 
silvery spots at the joints. , 
Type & (67076) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
3. Adela lithopola, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 33.) 
Antennae thickened on the basal half in the 9; dark purplish. Palpi very short ; black. Head and Thorax 
dark purplish cupreous. Forewings shining, metallic golden-bronzy, deepening to dark purplish toward 
the costa; a little beyond the middle these colours fade into a pale golden-yellow transverse band, 
externally margined by a black line, on the other side of which is a narrower silvery band, margined 
only toward the costa by a black line; this is followed by a short, outwardly oblique, black costal 
streaklet, forming the inner margin of a small silvery spot; the apical third is purplish cupreous, 
enclosing a small pale golden-yellow patch at the apex, in which are two black dots, one at the extreme 
apex, the other on the costa above and before it. Eap.al. 11mm. Hindwings and cilia purplish 
bronzy. Abdomen and Legs purplish fuscous. 
Type 2 (4723) Mus. Wism. BM. 
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Jalapa, 4500 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus). Unique. 
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