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ni'iier radial lung-stalkud willi 7 from the end of cull, botb strongly beut downwards, 

 6 terminating at the jwint iu hiudmargin where 5 would normally end ; 8, stalked ; 

 h) and II stalked, 10 anastomosing with 8, 9 ; hindwings, with neuration normal ; 

 costal apin-oximated to subcostal for nearly half of cell, T i'rom before end ; first 

 median at one-half, second at seven-eighths. No radial. 



Type : T. carbonaria sp. nov. 



A develoi^ment of ilelanchroia. 



180. Taraxineura carbonaria sp. nov. 



Forewings : coal-black, without markings, except a large snbquadrate white 

 blotch at and beyond the end of cell ; fringe black. 



Hindwings : wholly black. 



Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; collar, tongue, and 

 anal tnfts deep ochraceons. From the femoro-tibial joint of forelegs rises a short 

 pencil of black hairs and a long ochraceons process without scales. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One c? from Bogota, Colombia. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



181. Bronchelia subalbida sp. nov. 



Foreu'itigs : dingy grey, with darker grey specklings and markings ; the three 

 lines much as mfratcrnaria Gnen., but only dark fuscous, not black ; the exterior 

 line more oblic[ue outwards from costa and much less strongly dentate ; the whole 

 hindmargin darker gr&j, containing the uniformly lunulate submarginal line ; 

 marginal lino fuscous, interrnpted at the veins ; cell-spot dark grey ; fringe grey. 



Hindwings : the same, the cell-spot large and distinct ; the exterior line 

 imiformly dentate and nearly straight. 



Underside dull dirty whitish, with a broad smoky grey marginal fascia ; fore- 

 wings dappled with grey, the costa ochreous ; the three lines marked as dark spots 

 on costa, the exterior grey as far as the lower radial. Face and palpi dull brown ; 

 vertex pale grey ; collar and thorax grey tinged with ochraceous ; abdomen grey. 



Expanse of wings : 65 mm. 



One S from the interior of Surinam, September 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe). 



Distinguished from frcdarnaria, Guen., by the broader, less elongated wings, 

 with less strongly dentate margins, and by the whitish underside with complete 

 dark marginal band. 



Another cj from Castro, Parana, agreeing with the type above described in 

 breadth and outline of wings has the ground-colour whitish, thickly strewn with 

 olive-grey speckles, and the outer line of forewings as strongly dentate as in 

 J'raternaria. The underside dull whitish, with the marginal band narrower and less 

 strongly marked, especially in the hindwings. 



182. Bryoptera subbrannea sp. nov. 



Forewings : whitish, speckled and along the costal region suflfnsed with greyish 

 ochreous ; the lines indistinct and interrupted, all followed by an ochreous grey 

 shade, making them appear double ; first, slightly marked with blackish scales, 

 curved, at one-fourth; outer line at two-thirds, parallel to hiudmargin, slightly 



