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the cud ; but in both sexi's veius 'Z and 3 arc stalked, utid the base of the wing shows 

 a large fovea. In the hindwings the hindiuargin is elbowed at vein 7, becoming in 

 the ? gibbous towards tlie anal angle, while in the 6 it is excised and the anal angle 

 forms a conspicuous lobe ; vein L' rising near the base of wing and iu the i running 

 out into the lobe. 



Tvpe : y ijctibadistcis in/onitis sp. uov. 



1 'i. Nyctibadistes informis sj). uov. 



ForeiriiKjs : fuScous, sliglillv nil'oiis-tinged : an indistinct browu central line : 

 exterior line dark brown, at four-fifths, slightly excurved in middle : a row of brown 

 dots before the hindmargin. 



llimlirimjs : similar, but with the line strongly angled below the median vein. ; 

 an iudistiuct cell-spot in both wings. 



Underside dull cinereous. Head, thorax, anil abdomen fuscous, the last some- 

 what paler. 



Expanse of wings : 14 mm. 



A jiair from Iquitos, 1S'.)3 (Stuart). 



Siculodopsis gen. nov. 



Forctrinijs : elongate, twice as long as liroad ; costa faintly curved throughout ; 

 apex subacute ; hindmargin obliquely curved. 



Ilimlinm/!< : with well-rounded hindmargin, the aual angle sliglitly lobed. 



Auteunae of c? pectinated ; palpi short, porrect ; tongue and frenulum present ; 

 legs thick ; hindtibiae with four stout spurs ; anal tuft of abdomen long. 



yeuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular concave; first 

 median at four-fifths, second shortly before end of cell ; vein ij from upper angle of 

 cell; n and 7 stalked from the same jioint : 8 and '■> stalked: 10 and II free. 

 Hindwings with costal well scj)arated from subcostal : the two sulicostal nervules 

 short-stalked; radial from a little above centre of discocellular; medians as iu 

 forewings. 



Type: Sivtilodopsis Jfavicep^ sj>. nov. 



17. Siculodopsis flaviceps sp. nov. 



Forewings : dingy ochreous grey, covered with fine black strigulations, and 

 with a small black subajiical sjiot between veins (i and 7; fringe coucolorous. 



Ilindiriny.s : the same, with no black sjjot. 



Underside with the striae smaller and obscure. Thorax and abdomen cou- 

 colorous : face and collar dull yellow ; pal[ii blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One 3 from Sao Paulo, S. Hrazil. 



Kamilv (li:nMF/ri!lJ)Ai:. 



SriiKAMii.v OENOCHROMINAE. 



Parachoreutes gen. nov. 

 Fairici/iff.f : with costa quite straight till just before apex ; ai)ex shortly 

 juoduced : hindmargin obliiiuely curved, and minutely indented beneath apex. 

 Ilindwitiys : triangular ; hindmargin nearly straight. 



