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210. Apicia praeapicata sp. nov. 



Forewings : greyish ochreons, thickly dusted with small dark atoms ; the lines 

 very fine and inconspicuous ; first curved, at one-fourth ; second just before middle 

 of costa, below which it is curved, and passing over the black cell-spot runs oblirpicly, 

 parallel to hindmargin, to middle of inner margin ; third from three-fourths of costa 

 to two-thirds of inner margin, faintly luuulate between the veins ; marginal area 

 beyond it darker, tinged with pale brown ; snbmarginal line waved, indistinct, but 

 placed in a darker grey shade, the lunnles opposite the cell filled np with dark and 

 followed by a dark clond to hindmargin ; marginal spots small, black ; fringe 

 concolorons. 



Iliiulwings : with a curved cloudy antemodian line in front of the black 

 cell-spot ; a double strongly marked dark brown line from four-fifths of costa to 

 four-fifths of inner margin ; marginal area dark grey. 



Underside wholly pale greyish ochreous, speckled with fuscous ; a cloudy 

 blackish snbmarginal fascia, entire and thickened beyond cell on forewings, reaching 

 only to cell in the hindwings ; outer lines and cell-spots represented. Read, thorax, 

 and abdomen concolorons with base of wings ; toj) of face and paljji Ijrown. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One S from Petropolis, Brazil. 



The hindmargin of hind wing is crenulated, the middle tooth prominent. 



211. Asestra albitumida sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale brownish ochreous, faintly speckled with darker ; first line at 

 nearly one-third, angled on the'snbcostal vein, brownish fnscous with whitish scales 

 intermixed, expanding on inner margin into an oblong white blotch, traversed by a 

 faint dark line, which forms a black dot on the submedian vein ; outer line from 

 costa at five-sixths, angled just below costa and again on vein 6, thence oblique 

 inwards to three-fourths of inner margin, and marked only by dark vein-dots, 

 expanding on inner margin into a similar blotch to the first line ; on the costa it is 

 followed by a triangular white blotch, with its centre 'on the costa of the ground- 

 colour ; marginal area rather deeper in tone than rest of wing"; fringe concolorons ; 

 cell-spot round, rufous, rather large. 



Ilindivings : pale straw-colour, slightly speckled, with a curved snbmarginal 

 series of dark dots on the veins. 



[Tnderside of both wings whitish ochroons, the forewings tinged towards costa 

 and hindmargin with dull brownish, the lines indistinctly indicated. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen concolorons with forewings. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One cJ from Loja, Ecuador. 



Aterpnodes gen. nov. 



Allied to Spiloo'aspeda and Spododes, bnt with the hindmargins of both wings 

 entire and not crennlate. Palpi short, porrect; antennae of c? subdentate, shortly 

 bnt densely pubescent ; hind-tibiae of S thickened, with four approximate spurs, 

 and a pencil of hairs. Forewings with a fovea. 



Neuration : forewings, cell quite half as long as wing ; discocellular nearly 

 vertical ; first median at one-half, second at seven-eighths ; radials normal ; 



