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236. Perusia sticta >i>. uov. 



Foreicings: very pale straw-colour, finely freckled with fuscous ; the lines 

 marked only by dark vein-dots, the outer row oblique and straight and close to 

 hindmargin ; fringe concolorons ; no distinct cell-spot. 



Hindicings : pure white. 



Underside white ; costa of forewiugs grey ; both wings with cell-spots and 

 outer row of dots. Head and thorax concolorons with forewings, abdomen witli 

 hindwings. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One 6 from Bogota, Colombia. 



230. Phyllodonta ustaualia sji. miv. 



Forewings : pale wood-brown, mnch dusted with blackish atoms ; the lines 

 dark brown, ill-defined ; first at one-third, uniformly curved and vertical, marked 

 by a costal streak, a spot on inner margin, and spots on the veins ; median line 

 oblique from costa and not reaching beyond cell, preceded by a small black cell-spot; 

 outer line from close before ape.K, bluntly angled below costa, then oblique to inner 

 margin just before anal angle, marked above by black dots on veins and in the lower 

 half becoming pale grey and undulating, finely edged with darker ; a small dark 

 cloud at apex, and a collection of black scales on hindmargin before the tooth; 

 fringe dark brown. 



Ilindwinqs : paler, whitish towards costa, ochraceons towards inner margin : 

 traces of three dark brown curved lines on inner margin above anal angle ; first 

 short and curved upwards to end of cell ; second sinuous, edged with pale grey and 

 reaching nearly to costa ; third close to margin ; the space between the last two 

 filled up, as far as the tooth, with black-brown, followed by deep brown on the 

 margin ; fringe from apex to tooth white, with black dots at ends of veins, then 

 brown. 



Underside pale ochreons, suffused with pale brown and coarsely speckled with 

 fuscous ; discal spots and two outer lines dark brown and strongly marked ; inner 

 margin of forewings whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, dusted with 

 black; the thorax rather deeper coloured ; palpi darker ; abdomen beneath and legs 

 ochreons, spotted with black. 



Expanse of wings : 39 mm. 



One S from Sao Faulo. 



Allied to P. sneUi'iii Druce from ('olombia, but not so large ; the hindwings 

 without the band of pale spots ; and besides, the hindmargin of both wings is simply 

 incised below the tooth, while in siielleni the incision is deeply circular. 



237. Prochaerodes pilosa ^p. n<iv. 



Forewings : rufous brown, witli faintly darker striations ; a deeper brown 

 diffuse shade at one-third indicating the first line; cell-spot small, black; outer line 

 dark brown, with a paler outer edge, oblique from inner margin to costa well 

 before apex, slightly bent outwards above and marked by white dashes on veins 

 6, 7, and 8 ; a diffuse brown shade vertical to anal angle; fringe brown. 



Hindwings : similar. 



Underside dull brown, without any reddish tinge, deeper towards hindmargin ; 



