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28. Lissochlora intacta spec. nov. 



Fomrim/ : grass-green; costal edge very finely white; a niiimte dark cell- 

 spot ; fringe white : an extremelv obscure series of white dots on veins representing 

 an onter line. 



[lirtdiciny : without cell-spot. 



Underside whitish green, deeper green towards costa of forewing. 



Head, thorax, ahdomen, and forelegs green ; vertex and antennae suow-wliite 

 a fine red line behind vertex. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



1 c? from Dominica. 



29. Oospila thalassina spec. nov. 



Forciving : sea-green ; the costal streak and marginal lannies brick-red, 

 speckled with blackish ; between veins 4 and <i and below vein 2 these Innules are 

 swollen into large rounded blotches, that at anal angle the larger ; the oue above 

 vein 6 and the two between veins 2 and 4 remain quite small ; cell-spot large, black- 

 brown, edged with red ; a deeper green lunnlate-dentate shade is visible in certain 

 lights only before hindmargin and towards base ; fringe rnfons-grey, mottled darker 

 beyond the veins ; a fine dark marginal line. 



Hindtoiiig : with the lunnles only slightly swollen at apex and anal angle ; a 

 red-brown cell-spot on lower arm of discoeellnlar and a white inconspicuous spot 

 at njiper end of upper arm. 



Underside wliitish green, rosy-flushed in the forewing ; costa of forewing pink, 

 nnspeckled ; tlie large Innnles only marked, and wholly dark brown ; fringe pale, 

 chequered with brown, beyond a dark marginal line : hindwing with slight brown 

 blotches at apex and anal angle. 



Face, palpi, forelegs, and antennae red-brown ; thorax and basal portion of 

 abdomen green ; anal segments reddish ochreons ; dorsum with five crests of red- 

 brown and metallic scales ; abdomen beneath whitish ; a lateral grey-pink line 

 between the green above and the paler underside; legs pale. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 (? from Cnzco, Pern, April I'jiil (Garlei)p). 



Hindwing with crennlate hindmargin; the tooth at vein 4 very faint. 



Prasinoscia gen. nov. 



Foiyti'tiiff : triangnlar ; costa gently curved at base and before ajiex ; hind- 

 margin oblique, below vein 3 more oblii|ue and subcrcnnlate. 



fliufhci/tf/ : kite-shaped, bluntly angled at vein 4, and crennlate. 



Antennae of cJ (tips broken) plumose, the pectinations exceptionally long and 

 covered with down-like ciliations, exactly as in the separate plumelets of a bird's 

 feather : palpi slender, quite short ; eyes very large ; tongue and fn'nnlnui present ; 

 hindtibiae with four spurs. 



Neuration : forewing, cell less than half of wing, broad; discoeellnlar concave; 

 first median nervnie at two-thirds, second close to third, the median inbent from its 

 origin ; lower radial from above centre of discoeellnlar, upper from top end of cell ; 

 7,11,10,8,9 all stalked together: hindwing, costal and subcostal anastomosing 



