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224. Mimogonodes (?) squamata sp. nov. 



Forewinqs : pale wood-browu, densely dusted with coarse darker brown atoms ; 

 the veins pale yellowish ; the two transverse lines vertical, slightly siuuoas, dark 

 brown, the first edged internally, the second externally with paler, at one-third and 

 two-thirds respectively ; cell-spot indistinct ; fringe dark grey, neatly chequered 

 with white opposite the veins. 



Hindwings : the same, without first line. 



Underside much paler, without markings, e.Kcept traces of onter line on fore- 

 wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; abdomen paler on sides and 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One ? from Reyes, Bolivia, July 1895 (Arthur Maxwell Stuart). 



Neodora gen. nov. 



? . Forewings : with costa straight, slightly shouldered at base and convex 

 before apex ; apex rectangular ; hindmargiu strongly elbowed at vein 4, concave 

 above, oblique below ; anal angle well marked. 



Hindii'ings : with ape.x somewhat tnuicate : hiiidmargin rounded, subcrenulate; 

 anal angle square. 



Palpi with the third joint as long as second, decumbent, blunt, and smoothly 

 scaled ; antennae of ? simple ; forehead slightly tufted. 



Neuration : as in Sabulodes, but the discocellular more oblique ; veins 10 and 

 11 stalked; 7, 8, 0, stalked. 



Type : Neodora costinotuta sp. nov. 



'Z2b. Neodora costinotata sp. nov, 



Fort'icings : white, with olive-fnscous strigae; the veins in places finely marked 

 with black ; costa and base ochreous-tiuged ; a black blotch at base of costa : a 

 large velvety black cell-spot, connected obliquely with a black costal blotch before 

 it, and followed by a similar one, beneath which veins 4, o, and G are blotched with 

 black ; two black subapical costal blotches, the first outcurved and bent below, the 

 second giving rise to a blotched and interrupted dark submarginal line ; a fuscous 

 shade, formed by the thickening of the striae at middle of hinduuirgiu ; marginal 

 line dark brown ; fringe white, with dark marks at the ends of the veins ; inner 

 margin and submedian vein with some irregular dark spots in the middle, repre- 

 senting the ends of the first and median lines, of which the two median costal 

 blotches mark the beginning, 



lliitdwiiigs : white, faintly speckled with darker, with a dark cell-dot and some 

 fnscons marks at anal angle, denoting the beginning of two submarginal lines. 



Underside whitish, the outer line marked by dark vein-spots in both wings, 

 with a fuscous blotch at its middle in the forewings. Palpi and face whitish, 

 tinged with fuscous; thorax white and smoky grey ; abdomen white, tinged with 



grey. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 

 One ? from Bogota, Colombia. 

 A species standing quite by itself. 



