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subcostal yellow streak: a bronzy browu triangular costal patch, containing a white 

 mark; hindwings more mottled with white, with two brown lines and some vellowisli 

 scales. Head, tliorax, and abdomen olive-brown, speckled with pale and dark browu. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



Two ? ? from Newcastle, Jamaica, September 189:?. 



Rhopalista gen. uov. 



Forewings : ample, broadening outwards from a somewhat narrow base; costa 

 arched at base aud before apex, straight between ; hindmargin long, bent at vein 4, 

 more oblique and slightly indented below. 



Ilindu'ing.s : narrow; the hindmargin and both angles rounded; inner margin 

 folded over as a lajipet on the upjierside, the lappet concealing a mass of fluffy 

 hair. 



Antennae simple, filiform, aunulated, ending in a point, but not thickened 

 before it; palpi short; tongue strongly developed: hindtibiae with four sjjurs; 

 abdomen stout and hairy, extending far beyond hindwings. 



Neuratioti : forewings, cell not quite half as long as wing; discocellnlar vertical 

 for four-fifths, then sharply oblique outwards; first median at four-fifths, second 

 close before lower end of cell; radials normal; 7, 8, 9, stalked from well before end of 

 cell; lU and 11 from cell, 11 at one-half; 10 anastomosing with 11 and again with 

 8, 9, forming a long double areole; 11 rising from near its end, 7 from the end, 

 10, 9, 8, stalked. Hindwings with cell one-fourth only of wing, the discocellnlar 

 concave; costal anastomosing with subcostal for three-fourths of cell, then strongly 

 divergent; the snbcostals short-stalked, divergent; radial from below the centre of 

 the discocellular; the three medians all close togetlier from lower end of cell. 



Type : Rkopalisfa ignifera Th. Mg. 



122. Rhopalista fulvifusa sp. nov. 



Foreicuigs: ruddy ochreous, the markings black: four or five curved lines 

 partially coalescent, uear base, the outermost interrupted aud forming black dashes 

 on the veins; inner band of central fascia marked by three wavy vertical lines, the 

 two outer ones partly interrupted; the outer band also consisting of three lines, only 

 visible near costa, the outermost, however, indicated by faint black dots on the 

 veins; submargiual line formed of whitish interrupted lunules, followed by black 

 wedge-shaped marks which reach the hindmargin, and preceded by three black 

 lines, mucli interrupted and forming three dark blotches, one at costa, the second 

 beyond cell, the third above the anal angle; this last jireceded and followed by 

 pale yellowish patches; the whole of the central fascia beyond inner band is 

 obliterated by a ruddy suffusion extending to the hindmargin below vein 4; an 

 interrupted black marginal line; fringe ruddy, with blackish patclies beyond veins. 



Ilimlwings : with fringe whitisli ochreous, with fine fuscous atoms lying in the 

 form of three curved fasciae. 



Underside pale glossy straw-colour: the costa of both wings marked with the 

 beginnings of black lines; both wings with the cell-spots large and distinct; fore- 

 wings with a black ajiical patch iind the apex itself straw-colour. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen ochreous; the ajiical half of j)atagia and the metathoracic tuft dark 

 grey or blackish; the middle segments of the abdomen also tinged with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One S from Costa Ifica (Underwood). 



