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Underside the same, bnt duller ; the costa of forewiugs iinqple. Face and 

 vertex purplish ; thorax aud abdomen yellow, vari<"d with ferrnginoos. 

 Expanse of wings : 12 mm. 

 One (J from Valencia, Veneznela. 



03. Ptychopoda percriuita ^^p. nov. 



Foii'iciitgs: pale ochreoii.-;, sliglitly yellow -I iiigiil towards the costa, and some- 

 times very finely dusted with grey atoms, with iive darker ochreons denticulate 

 lines, antemedian, median, touching the small dark cell-spot, postraedian, and two 

 snbmarginal : fringe concolorons, with a row of black dots along Imse. 



IIliKlui/igs : without cell-spot, and only four lines. 



Underside with the lines more distinct ; forewings with the disc tinged with 

 grey. The costa broadly reddish yellow. Face aud palpi brown-red ; vertex white : 

 thorax and abdomen ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : Ki mm. 



Two S S from Castro. Parana, and Sao Paulo. 



In the example from Castro, which has the slight grey dusting, the lines are 

 more distinct and tlie marginal dots larger ; in the other, the lines, not being grey- 

 tinged, are less obvious, and tlie marginal dots (|uite small. 



The hindwiugs are oval, with botli angles aud the hindraargin rounded otf ; 

 on the underside the costa of the hindwings is armed with two fringed tufts of hair, 

 one at base, the other in the middle, and there are curled wisps of hair along the 

 discocellular aud the inner-marginal area : the first two pairs of legs are very long, 

 the middle tibiae with a tuft of long liairs from the apex and two very unei[nal 

 spurs, the inner one being as long as the first joint of the tarsi ; the hindlegs are 

 quite aborted, and hidden beneath a dense tuft of pale hairs; the antennae shortly 

 pubescent. 



04. Ptychopoda rosea sp. nov. 



Foreivings : i)ale pearl-grey, dusted aud sufi'used with rosy purple ; costa and 

 lines purple ; first at one-fourth, second in middle, both vertical, the second slightly 

 incurved at inuor margin : third from costa at three-fourths to two-thirds of inner 

 margin, starting from a black costal sjiot, obIi(iue outwards aud angled on vein (J, 

 thfuee obliijue inwards, marked with dark dots on veins : marginal area snlVuscd 

 with rosy purple, with the snbmarginal line jiale : cell-spot rosy; fringe reddish 

 grey, chequered dark and light. 



lliiiiliciiuj.-i : with a zigzag dark central line, edged with wliilisli on each side: 

 marginal area rosy ; fringe dark grey, mixed with whitish. 



Underside dull rosy grey, with the markings indistinct. Heail, tiiorax, and 

 base of abdomen pearly grey: rest of abdomen tinged witli reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



One J from Paramaribo, August 18'.i".' (C. W. Ellacombe). 



'••5. Ptychopoda subpilosa sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale ochreous, tinged with darker along the costa, and with slight 

 dark spots at one-fourth, one-half, ami three-fourths, indicating the origin of the 

 three lines, of which only the poslniedian, somewhat denticulate, is jilain ; fringe 

 ochreous, with slight dark ilashes at base ; cell-spot small, duik. 



