( -^21 ) 



One f? from Castro, Parana (E. D. Jones). 



A neater and smoother-looking insect than its allies ; the hindwings with a 

 distinct angle at middle of hindmargin. 



241. Nepheloleuca absentimacula sp. nov. 



Forcicings : pale snlphnr-yellow, with faint grey transverse strigae ; costa more 

 whitish, with the striae fuscons ; lines faint, pale grey ; first from one-fourth of 

 costa to one-third of inner margin, interrupted below costa ; outer line much 

 interrupted and very faint, from costa before apex to near anal angle ; a short grey 

 stre.ik on inner margin at two-thirds ; cell-spot linear, brown ; fringe concolorous 

 with wings. 



Ilimhcings : whitish towards costa, and without first line ; cell-spot small, 

 brown ; outer line grey, at four-fifths, parallel in the main to hindmargin, angled in 

 middle, where there is a slight orange cloud ; a brown-black spot in the tail, which 

 is blunt ; fringe deeper yellow, with a very tine basal line. 



Underside paler, without striae ; a brown cell-sjwt in forewings, and a brown 

 outer line in hindwings, the marginal space between tail and anal angle brown. 

 Palpi whitish, tipped with brown ; face whitish with a brown bar above ; vertex 

 whitish ; thorax and abdomen pale yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



Two (?c? from Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, September 1898 (S. Klages). 



242. Paragonia longidens sp. nov. 



Very much like P. occiduata, Gucn. and the paler-marked forms of tasima 

 Cram., but differentiated at once by the structure of the <S antennae. 



In Parayoniii, proper, these are serrate, the serrations jjubescent, and with a 

 single bristle on each side from each serration, the bristle being about twice as long 

 as the serration ; in the present species the serrations have developed into distinct 

 pectinations, laterally ciliated, and bearing a bristle from the apex, the bristle 

 being barely as long as the pectination. The hindmargins of hindwings are crenulate, 

 both above and below the angulation at middle. The $ example from Paramba has 

 dull ochreous wings, thickly speckled and strigulated with fuscous, with four diffuse 

 curved dark fuscous shades, basal, median, postmedian, and submarginal ; the basal 

 and marginal areas more or less wholly fuscous ; the hindwings with three shades ; 

 both wings with black cell-spot. 



Underside duller and paler, with the marginal area in both wings beyond the 

 exterior line darker. 



Expanse of wings: i 56 mm. ; ? 80 mm. 



One i from Chimbo, August 18'J7 (Rosenberg) (type) ; one ? from I'aramba, 

 Ecuador. 



243. Paragonia planimargo sp. nov. 

 Foreicinys : ochreous fawn-colour, with fine fuscous dusting, the costal and 

 outer marginal area greyer, with less of the ochreous tint ; lines very obscure, 

 indicated by a slightly darker hue and by i'aint dots on the veins ; first at one-third ; 

 median bent round the cell-spot ; outer lino starting from a large oval bluish white 

 subapical spot on costa to three-fourths of inner margin, bent vertically on sub- 

 median fold, and ending in a rather darker blotch ; submarginal, the plainest, near 



