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102. Synecta cuneifascia sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull slaty grey; the costa, veins, and cross lines blackish; first at 

 one-fifth, second median, third at two-thirds; submarginal at five-sixths; the last 

 three oatcnrved above and incurved below middle, all parallel; the third marked 

 by black dashes along the veins, the submarginal by wedge-shaped marks between 

 them; large marginal black spots at ends of veins; cell-spot large, blackish, on the 

 median line. 



Hindwings : the same, without the first line; cell-spot between the antemedian 

 and postmedian lines. 



Underside darker: both wings witli blackish marginal fasciae. Face, palpi, 

 collar, vertex, and basal segment of abdomen deep yellow; thorax and rest of 

 abdomen grey; antennae blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



One c? from ten miles above Mapiri, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stuart). 



103. Synecta griseola sp. nov. 



Forewings: whitish, thickly powdered and striated with olive-grey; the lines 

 indistinct; first at one-fourth, second median, both marked by grey costal blotches 

 and difi'usely curved across wing; third marked by dots on veins below costa; sub- 

 marginal white, regularly waved, with dark grey suffusion on both sides; fringe 

 olive-grey. 



Hindwings : with three faint curved olive-grey postmedian lines. 



Underside dingy whitish grey; the forewings with a dark grey marginal fascia; 

 the fringes chequered. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey: the face darker. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One (? from ten miles above Mapiri, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stuart). 



Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 

 164. Aspilates candidata sp. nov. 



Forewings : shining white, dusted with pale fuscous; the lines fuscons, very 

 oblique; first slender and indistinct, from inner margin before middle to costa at 

 three-fourths; second distinct, diffused externally, from two-thirds of inner margin 

 into apex; a faint curved submarginal line; a marginal row of black dots; fringe 

 white; cell-spot minute. 



Hindwings : with a curved submarginal line, marked by dots on veins; the 

 marginal dots elongated. 



Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen all white. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One 3 from Castro, Parana. 



The antennae are very shortly pectinated; in the forewings 7, 8, 9, and 10, 11, 

 are stalked together. 



105. Aspilates plurilineata sp. nov. 



Forewings: grcyisli white, with dark grey dusting; costal area greyer; the 



lines all oblique and jjarallel; the first at one-third, curved beneath costa, indistinctly 



donble: basal area within it grey: second iiiu^ straight, fine, from lieyond two-thirds 



of costa to before middle of inner margin, closely followed by an ochreous grey 



