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Underside dull grey-lirowu along costal region, white along inner margin, deeji 

 purple-blue l)etween ; costa and veins at liase white ; the suhajiical streak broad 

 and white, not cut np into spots and nearly touching costa and hiudmargin. Hind- 

 wings grey-brown ; veins at base white ; a white spot at middle of costa, another at 

 apex, and a third on hindmargin before the anal angle ; a twice-bent narrow white 

 line at two-thirds, touching the outside of central spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 olive-grey ; abdomen ringed with white : palpi black above, white below; face with 

 the sides white ; a white ring between head and thorax ; legs white, tinged witli 

 fnscous : underside of abdomen and anal tuft, when expanded, white. 



Ex])anse of wings : 32 — 35 mm. 



Five (? J from Reyes, August 1805 (Stuart). 



In appearance resembling Erateina whitdiji Drnce. 



SiBFAMiLV OURAPTERYGINAE. 



131. Eatiaria citrina sp. uov. 



Foreicingii : pale canarv-yellow, with six oblique brown stripes, the first four 

 overlaid with silvery scales; the first five parallel and ol)lii|ae outwards, the sixth 

 oblique inwards, parallel to hindmargin and joining the fifth at anal angle : fringe 

 yellow. 



Ilinrlwinqs : with four stripes, two straight and inconspicuous, along veins 

 1 and 2, the third and fourth broad, the third central, curved into anal angle, 

 the fourth submarginal, bent before the tail, and running to anal angle, marked 

 with silvery scales ; area from tail to anal angle flushed with pale orange ; tail with 

 two black spots ; fringe yellow, with a dark basal line from vein 7 to base of tail. 



Underside paler ; hindwings with only the fourth band and the tail-.spots. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; antennae brown. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



Several examples, all S S , from Newcastle, Jamaica. 



STrBFAMiLY PALYADINAE. 

 Aplogompha gen. nov. 



Fore/cint/s : with costa straight till close to apex : hindmargin evenly curved. 



HindicitHiA : with rounded hiudmargin. 



Palpi stout, porrect ; antennae of <S plumose : hindtibiae with four spurs ; 

 no fovea on either wing, or tuft of hair on forewings. 



Xei/riitio/i : forewings, cell hardly half as long as wing ; first median at 

 two-thirds, second and third together from lower end of cell ; the two radials 

 stalked from top end of cell; all the five subcostals stalked. Hindwings with 

 cell quite half as long as wing ; first subcostal and second median both considerably 

 before the ends of cell. 



Type : Aployompha laj'ayi Dognin (Fido/iia ?). 



132. Argyrotome ferruginea sp. nov. 



Fon'/cint/s : greyish fawu-colonr, with the disc j'iiler : the basal third bearing 

 raised silvery scales ; the costal edge narrowly brown ; an oblique ferruginous 

 elongated cell-mark, with the inner edge and centre nuukcd with raised silvery 



