(430) 



Abdomen with red crests, as iu liacl(eo)<jjila; auteuuae of cJ short, pectinated 

 nearly to end; jialpi verj- short, not reaching front of face; tongue slight; frennlum 

 present, bnt weak. Hindlegs fully developed; the tibiae with terminal spurs only. 



Neuiadon: forewings, cell half of wing: discocellular concave: first median 

 at two-thirds, second and third together from end of cell; lower radial from 

 above centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; 7, 8, 9, lU, stalked; 

 11 anastomosing with VZ. Hind wings with 3, 4, and 6, 7, stalked. 



Scaling fine and thin. 



Tyi)e: Progonodes stagonata Feld. {Iiac/u30sjjila). 



53. Racheospila conceutrata sp. uov. 



Forewiiigs : aiiple-grecu, the costa white; lines denoted l)y red-brown spots on 

 veins; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; outer at tliree- 

 fourths, parallel to hindmargin, but the lowest spot, on the submedian vein, just 

 beyond middle of wing; a roundish, red-brown i)atch, edged with yelluwisli, above 

 anal angle, extending from vein 3 to the submedian fold: marginal line red-brown, 

 swollen into triangular marks between the veins, the lowest the largest, touching 

 the anal blotch; cell-spot red-brown; fringe white, tinged with red at base. 



Eindioinga : without first line; cell-spot larger; blotch above anal angle oval, 

 distinctly yellow-edged, between veins 1 and 2. 



Underside pale green; the cell-spots and marginal triangles red-brown; costa 

 of forewings broadly pale. Palpi very long, white below, red above ; the extreme 

 tip white; face, thora.\, and abdomen green; vertex and antennae white; collar 

 bright red. 



Expanse of wings: 24 mm. 



One ? from Jamaica. 



Like 7i'. stellataria Moeschl. from Jamaica also, from which it only tliflers by 

 the possession of the anal blotch. 



54. Racheospila dentiliuea sp. uov. 



Forewings: apple-green, the costal edge fiuely white; a fine strongly dentate 

 white line at two-thirda, edged internally with olive scales; an inner line near base 

 of olive scales; cell-spot smoky brown, with the centre black; a red-brown 

 marginal line, interrupted at the veins; fringe whitish, with brownish dashes at 

 the vein-ends. 



Jliiidwtngs : the same. 



Underside pale mealy green; the marginal line red-brown. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen green, the last with a white spot iu a brown ring on the first and third 

 segments; fillet narrowly white. 



Expanse of wings: 32 mm. 



One ? from Eio Demerara, British Guiana. 



55. Racheospila (?) jaspidata sji. nov. 

 Forewings: hyaline green, semitriiiis]iarcnt ; the base bright viuons red, this 

 colour extending also along inner margin below submedian vein and along costa 

 above the subcostal; a minute red cell-spot; hindmarginal band bright vinous, its 

 inner edge waved and forming a deep sinus, nearly as far as the margin, between 

 veins 2 and 4 ; fringe pale green, checiuered with red at end of veins. 



