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111. Ptychopoda gibbosa sp. nov. 

 Foreivings : pale brownish oclireons, sprinkled with dark scales ; the lines 

 obscure, slightly darker than the gronud-ioluar ; tirst line hardly traceable ; median 

 thick, subdeutate, very oblique below middle, from two-thirds of costa to middle of 

 inner margin ; outer line at five-sixths, denticulate, the teeth indicated by black 

 dots on veins ; a pale submarginal band between two darker bands ; fringe 

 concolorous, with small black dots in it beyond the veins ; cell-spot small. 

 Iliwhoings : similar. 



Underside silky, brownish ochreous, with cell-sj)ots and outer line distinct. 

 Face, palpi, and forelegs brown-black ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen 

 like wings : vertex paler ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : (? 18 mm. ; ? 21 mm. 

 One <?, one ? from St. Andrew's, Grenada, April 1890. 



The markings in the t? are less distinct than in the ?. In both sexes the 

 hindmargin of hindwings is slightly indented beyond cell ; but whereas the shape 

 of the hindwing in the ? is normal, and the anal iingle well marked, the hindwing 

 in the d is short and nearly round, both angles being rounded off; the abdomen (tj) 

 is nnnsually elongated, with spreading anal tuft ; the antennae of c? with short 

 ciliations ; in both sexes veins 6, 7, of hindwings are on a short stalk. In the ? 

 the middle spurs of the hind-tibiae are almost obsolete. 



112. Ptychopoda indecora sp. nov. 



Forewings : dingy ochreous grey, speckled with fuscous ; the lines marked by 

 rather large blackish spots ; first at one-third, the spots generally obsolete ; median 

 shade from qnitc two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin, slightly rufous-tinged 

 and thicker below ; cell-spot blackish, variable in size and distinctness ; outer line 

 at five-sixths, the spot on vein 6 displaced towards hindmargin ; fringe concolorons, 

 with a row of dark dots at base beyond veins. 



Hindwings : similar, with a paler submarginal line indicated, between two 

 submarginal darker shades. 



Underside mnch paler and clearer, without dingy dusting ; cell-spots and outer 

 line very distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; tips and outside of 

 palpi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 23 mm. 



Two d S, four ? ? from Dominica, March (4), June (1), and November(l) 1897. 



The (S (S are paler than the ? ?, and in consequence the markings more clearly- 

 traceable. 



113. Ptychopoda infantula sp. nov. 



Forewings: bone-colour, tinged with ochreous ; first line blackish, at one-fourth, 

 angled below the snbcostal, then oblique ; a similar line, blacker on costa, just 

 beyond middle; traces of a submarginal line; cell-spot large and black at two-thirds; 

 fringe concolorons. 



Ilinrlwings : with a blackish antemedian line, a large black cell-spot, and traces 

 of a submarginal line. 



Underside much suffused with dull ochreous and grey ; both cell-spots very 

 large, black. Fare and jialpi blaik-brown ; vortex, tliorax, and abdomen concolorous 

 with wings ; abdomen with traces of a bhu'lc band in niidille. 



