( 340 ) 



quadrate black spots, with brown dots iu the intervals ; some black reticulations at 

 and below apex along outer margin ; fringe fawn colour. 



Hindwing : with a blackish baud at base, and a double row of dark sj)0ts across 

 middle ; some black marks at apex. 



Underside the same. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fawn colnur, the last spotted with black. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



1 c? from Sapncay, Paraguay, l^eptember 10i(4 (\V. Foster). 



Somewhat resembling /. thiastoralls Wlk., but the ground colour is dilt'ereut, 

 anil the underside of forewing shows no metallic scaling. 



43. Letchena extravagans spec. nov. 



Foifwiiiij : grey-brown, with numerous short dark transverse streaks ; costa 

 paler, reddish browu ; iu the middle of the wing between subcostal and submedian 

 veins a ferrngiuous orange patch, containing several whitish hyaline spots between 

 the veins, the most prominent being those at the liase of the intervals between the 

 median nervules and one at the outside of the patch between 2 and 3 ; some smaller 

 ones on each side of the submedian fold. 



Hindwing : uniform grey-brown. 



Underside similar, but the hiiuhving with a reddish shade across wing to anal 

 angle, which is slightly visible on the upper side. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all grey-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 ? from Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, June 1UM6 (Klages). 



Allied to L. mi/isusalis Wlk. 



Letchenodes gen. nov. 

 Ditt'ers from Lctchcnn Wlk. in having veins S, 9 of forcwings stalked, as iu 

 Hyjiolampius. 



Type : Letchenodes ninnianaliis Wlk. (Fi/rali.s). 



44. Macrogonia lucida spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale ochreous, reticulated with orange-red ; costal streak lirowuish 

 oraugc : a siiliijuadrate dark brown blotch beyond cell between subcostal vein 

 and vein 5, darkest below, emitting a short line to join an irregular obli(pie brosvu 

 line from vein 7 to Ijeyoud middle of inner margin, which in its turn joins an 

 outwardly oblique brown line from subcostal at five-sixths to outer margin ; rest 

 of wing occupied by a network of ramifying orange-red streaks ; fringe unifoimly 

 and thickly deep brown. 



Jlindtcing : with costa pale, unmarked ; a dark brown antemediau line from 

 vein G to inner margin, continuing that of forewing ; the veins thickly orange- 

 red and some of the transverse markings tinged with brown ; fringe deep brown. 



Underside ochreous without the orange-red tmge ; the reticulations brown ; 

 an elongate brown blotch from vein 7 to 5 beyond cell ; fringe deep browu with 

 the tips darker. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged and speckled with orange-red ; 

 face and palpi browu ; legs ochreous and red, the foretibiae dark brown. 



Exj)ansi' of wings : c?<i'^mm. ; y 30 mm. 



4 cJd, 1 ¥ I'roui Fonte Boa, U{)per Amazons, June I9UU (Klages). 



