(438 ) 



Himlwings : with broail dark central shade followed liy a Hue of black lunules 

 on the veins ; the rest as in forewings. 



Underside dull mouse-colonr, without markings. Thorax and abdomen like 

 wings ; face, vertex, and palpi blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



One cJ from Siiapure, V^enezuela, March 1899 (Klages). 



Subfamily CYLLOPODINAE. 

 (i. Cyllopoda longicorpus sji. nov. 



Fore/rings: with all the margins black, the apex and hindmargin broadly; 

 centre of wing occupied by a long yellow blotch, pointed at base and gradually 

 widening to end of cell, where it begins to be rounded off, the rounded end reaching 

 half-way between end of cell and hindmargin ; fringe black. 



Hiuduini/s : with the apex and hindmargin somewhat broadly bordered with 

 black, the inner margin with its fringe quite narrowly. 



Underside the same. Face yellowish ; palpi, antennae, vertex, and thorax 

 black ; shoulders with a yellowish tuft at sides ; abdomen black above, white below, 

 the dorsum with a narrow yellow stripe, which does not (juite reach the anal 

 segments. Abdomen quite as long as forewings. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



Two 6 S from Tachlra, Venezuela (Briceuo). 



Like gopnla Dogn., but larger, and distinguished especially by the length 

 and stripes of the body ; the inner margin of hindwings also is narrowly black. 

 Still more like ochra Drnce. 



7. Darna regia sp. nov. 



Forewings : deeji purple, with a large deep yellow blotch occupying the middle 

 of the wing ; its inner edge running from one-third of costa towards middle of 

 inner margin, which it does not quite reach ; its outer from two-thirds of costa, 

 parallel to inner edge as far as vein 5, then semicircularly excurved towards 

 liindmargiu as far as vein 2, thence sinuous and joining inner edge below sub- 

 median vein. 



Hindwings : wholly deep purple. 



Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 4t) mm. 



One ? from Paramba, Ecuador, January to May 1897. 



8. Dioptis pellucida sp. nov. 



Forewings : hyaline bluish ; the markings smoky blackish ; costa and inner 

 margin narrowly, the hindmargin rather more broadly and irregularly blackish, 

 broadest at apex ; all the veins blackish ; a black tooth from middle of costa 

 including discocellular ; a black transverse bar from two-thirds of costa to hind- 

 margin above anal angle, swollen at both ends. 



Hindwings : with costa moderately, hindmargin more broadly black ; the veins 

 black. 



