(498 ) 



220. Nepheloleuca acuta sp. imv. 



Foreu-ings : deep }-cllow, with a few rather coarse and diftuse brownish 

 mottlings, and towards hindmargin some fine striae; costa finely white, with fuscous 

 •lots; first Hue indistinct, curved, marked by a brownisli patch on costa and iuner 

 margiu; cell-spot minute, placed in a brownish patch on the discocellular; outer line 

 dnll red-brown, from costa at two-thirds, oblique outwards nud bluutl_v auijled on 

 vein 6, then sinuous inwards to iuuer margin at three-fifths, marked by brown 

 white-tipj)ed dashes on veins and followed by a reddisli flush; snbmargiual line 

 illHlefiaed, touching the angle of outer liue and enclosing a rufous whit('-m;irked 

 triangular patch on costa, marked below by some rufous clouds, and running to anal 

 angle; fringe yellow. 



Ilimlicings : with the outer line strongly sinuate and dentate, the teeth marked 

 with long white dashes, followed by a dnll rufous baud, which leaves only a yellow 

 edge from apex to tail; the tail acute, witl\ a red-brown blotch at base; fringe yellow, 

 with a dark line at base from tail to anal angle. 



Underside deep yellow, with brown mottliugs and a subniargiual red-brown 

 diffusely edged fascia; cell-spot of forewings large, brown. Palpi greyish; face and 

 vertex wliitish; thorax and abdomen yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



One ? from Cuba, from the Felder Collection. 



Distinguished by the smaller size and very acute tail of hindwings from 

 S. politia Cram. 



227. Paracomistis subtractata sp. nov. 



Forrtcinqs: ochreous, much speckled and suffused with fiiwn-colour: tlio costa 

 brownish; first liue curved, at one-third, second from costa at five-sixths, diffusely 

 fuscous and oblique inwards to vein 5, rather strongly toothed outwards on vein 4, 

 thence inwardly curved to two-thirds of inner margin, marked by black vein-dots; 

 cell-spot black; friuge concolorous, with a row of small lilack spots at base at ends 

 of veins. 



Hindwings: with the cell-spot large, black, jilaced iu a pale round space: outer 

 liue curved, with an indentation corresponding to that in forewiugs. 



Underside ])aler, unspcckled except towards hindmargin, with the cell-spots, 

 the angled outer lines, and marginal spots dark. Face and palpi dark brown; 

 vertex and basal joint of antennae whitish; thorax and al)domen like wings. 



Expanse of wings ; 24 mm. 



One 6 from the interior of Surinam, Angust 1802 (C. W. Ellacombe). 



Near P. lignicolor Warr., l)ut decidedly smaller and less marked. 



228. Paragonia maculata sp. nov. 



Forewings: fawn-colour, tinged and striated with olive; the lines indistinctly 

 darker; first beyond one-third, sliglitly waved; the second at two-thirds, sinuous 

 inwards in middle, and followed above inner margin by an obscure ochraceous jiatcb 

 edged with darker; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwings : with two dark and more distinct but diffuse postmedian lines. 



