1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1O7 



14. R. sordida sp. nov. <j\ Antennae luteous. Front, collar, thorax 

 and abdomen, pale wood-brown. The legs are lighter. The primaries 

 are wood-brown, darkey at the base, pale on the outer third, which is 

 marked near the apex by a dark oval brown spot. There are also near 

 the outer angle some obscure zigzag brown lines. The secondaries are 

 wood-brown, paler externally, with a dark spot near the anal angle. The 

 underside of both wings are uniformly pale brown. Expanse 40 mm. 



COSUMA Walk. 



15. C. cinerea sp. nov. J 1 . Antennae testaceous. Palpi brown below, 

 cinereous above; upperside of thorax and patagiae cinereous marked with 

 brown scales; the upperside of abdomen brownish; lowerside of abdomen 

 and legs cinereous. The primaries are cinereous, shining, heavily dusted, 

 with blackish scales and clouded with brown on the cell; a small blackish 

 spot is located at the end of the cell, and is followed by a zigzaged trans- 

 verse line of brown reaching from the costa before the apex to the middle 

 of the inner margin. About the middle of this line there is a subtriangular 

 patch of cinereous scales, which, in certain lights, has a silvery appear- 

 ance. There is a short subapical band of dark brown, which is bent at 

 its middle, and is followed by a snbmarginal series of small dots located 

 on the intraneural spaces. The fringe is pale ashen checkered with brown. 

 The secondaries are pale cinereous with darker brown scales upon the 

 cell. The ends of the nervules are darker and the fringes are checkered 

 like those of the primaries. On the underside the wings are uniformly 

 pale yellowish cinereous sprinkled with blackish scales. The fringes are 

 as on the upperside. Expanse 45 mm. 



LIMACODES Latr. 



16. L. cretacea sp. nov. rf. Uniformly white. The eyes black. The 

 wings are lustrous white witli a pale brownish spot on the outer third of 

 the primaries, and with a large subtriangular space upon the disc of the 

 secondaries marked with the same color. On the underside the. costal 

 area of the primaries is clouded with pale brown. Expanse 12 mm. 



NATADA Walk. 



17. N. melanipepla sp. nov. $. Antenna black. Front, collar and pa- 

 tagku bright red. Thorax, abdomen and legs, reddish ochraceous. The 

 primaries and secondaries are reddish ochraceous, with the outer margins 

 and fringes brownish gray, the marginal border being widest near the 

 costa. The underside of both wings is as the upperside, save that the 

 black border of the primaries is continued along the costa to within one- 

 third of the distance from the base. Expanse 50 mm. 



Ha6itat.-Tala.guga.. 



PROLATOIA gen. nov. 



$ . Antenna' moderately long, heavily pectinated, the setae 

 gradually diminishing in length from before the base to the ex- 



