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Antennae of 5 simj)le, minutely pubescent ; [laljii iiorruet, second joint lonj; and 

 hirsute, third joint decumbent, blunt and smooth ; tongue and frenulum jjresent. 



yeiiration : forewings, cell half as long as wing : discocellular vertical : first 

 median nervule at five-sixths, second close before third ; radials normal ; 7, S, '.», U), 

 stalked; 11 anastomosing with costal. Hindwings, costal divergent from base; 

 first subcostal just before end of cell ; radial from middle of discocellular: medians 

 as in forewings. 



Type : Pitrackorcidcs sithpid-jiurca, sp. iiov. 



Allied to Lcjitocteiioijais Warr., but difi'ering in the shape of the ]ial|ii ami in 

 the neuratiou. 



18. Parachoreutes sixbpurpurea sfi. nov. 



Foreirim/s : deep fawn-colour, the costa rather darker and marked with a 

 diffuse, somewhat triangular, ])urplish blotch beyond the middle : an obiiipie purplish 

 line from costa before apex to inner margin just beyond middle : apical region 

 slightly fulvous-tinged ; cell-spot small, inconspicuous ; fringe concolorous, with 

 slight dark marks at base between the veins, more distinct just below apex. 



Hindicinfis : with an antemedian straight purplish line. 



Underside wholly rosy purple. I'alpi, face, vertex, and collar purjile ; thorax 

 and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One ? from liio Demerara, British Guiana. 



Subfamily MECOCERATINAE. 

 19. Almodes subrufa sp. nov. 



Forewinys : pale olive, dusted with reddish and fuscous scales, and with 

 reddish fuscous suffusion in ])laces ; first line at one-fourth, bluntly angled in cell, 

 and vertical from submedian fold to inner margin : liasal area below subcostal 

 with dark suffusion : cell-spot of dark brown raised scales, followed by a median 

 line similar tn the first line ; extei'ior line with a blunt prominence on vein (3, 

 and between veins '.i and 4, then incurved and with a smaller tooth on the sub- 

 median vein ; space between median and outer line suffused with dark as far 

 as vein 4; submarginal line indistinctly marked, preceded by dark suffusion at 

 costa, opposite cell, and above inner margin : a row of red-brown marginal spots 

 between the veins ; fringe red-brown, marked with olive at ends of veins. 



Hindwings : without basal lino ; the whole of the space between the median 

 and outer lines suffused with dark ; a row of dull red marginal lunules between 

 the veins ; the cell-s])ot edged with i)aler internally. 



Underside of both wings dull brick-red, with the lines and cell-spots blackisii ; 

 inner margin of forewings from base to outer line blackish. Falpi ochreou.s, dusted 

 with fuscous ; face ochreous, with a narrow black bar ; vertex pure ochreons : 

 thora.x and abdomen olive-nchrenns, mucli moll led with dark scales. 



Expanse of wings : 4(1 mm. 



One <S from Pratville, Jamaica. 



Easily distinguished by the red underside. 



211. Phellinodes couifera sjj. nov. 

 ?. Fon-wini/.f : white, almost wholly Milfnsed with smoky grey, and with 

 numerous dark grey freckles : iin irregular conical wliite costal blotch at two- 



