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sinnons velvety black shade from two-thirds of costa to before anal angle ; fringe 

 blue-grey. 



Hvuhvings : with the inner marginal half greyish bine, the costal half smoky 

 pnrplish black ; the veins black ; the fringe bine-grey. 



Underside like upper, bnt the dark tints all paler ; veins of the yellow area of 

 forewing not black ; costal edge only finely black ; the dark shade between the 

 tints diffuse and broad. Head and thorax brownish cinereous ; abdomen bluish 

 grey ; abdomen beneath and legs brownish grey. 



Expanse of wings : .52 mm. 



One ? from between R Songo and R. Snapi, Bolivia, llUO m., March to 

 June (Garlepp). 



30. Scaea discinota sp. nov. 



Forewings : with basal half orange, the veins and costa narrowly, the inner 

 margin broadly black ; outer half dark pnrplish grey, with a vertical black bar 

 limiting the orange half; fringe coucolorous with outer half. 



IJi/id/rinffs : with more than the basal half orange ; hindmargin purplish black, 

 starting from three-fifths of costa, curved outwards and much narrowed to anal 

 angle, touching a black spot on upper arm of discocellular ; costa very narrowly, 

 inner margin more broadly black ; veins finely black. 



Underside similar ; the veins less broadly black. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 black. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One ? from Pedregosa, Merida, 3000 m., October 1897 (Briceno). 



31. Tanaostyla conjunctiva sp. nov. 



Forewings: hyaline whitish, the veins and folds smoky black; costal area above 

 the subcostal vein and inner margin below the submedian black ; apex and hind- 

 margin more broadly black ; an oblique pure white blotch beyond the cell from 

 below costa to vein 3, its inner edge fairly straight, its outer somewhat rounded and 

 lobed between the veins ; the median vein, the two lower median uervules, and the 

 discocellular more thickly black than the other. 



Hindwings : similar ; the costal and hindmargins diffusely black. 



Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky cinereous ; abdomen 

 below whitish. 



Expanse of wings : <S 37 mm. ; ? 47 mm. 



One c?, one ? , from Bogota. 



Differs from typical Tanaosti/la in having in both sexes veins 6 and 7 of hind- 

 wings coincident throughout, not stalked and furcate. 



32. Tithraustes impleta sp. nov. 



Forewings : smoky hyaline ; all the veins thickly and coarsely black ; costal 

 and inner margins black, above the subcostal and below the submedian veins 

 respectively ; ajjical third black, containing in it beyond cell a flattened oval pure 

 white blotch ; the space immediately beyond cell between veins 6 and 7 and the 

 marginal end of that between veins 2 and 3 is also clothed with white scales. 



Hindwings : with veins black ; the costal, hind, and inner margins black ; 



