NOVITATES ZoeLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 137 



the basal crest and anal tuft rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of aljdomen 

 rufous mixed with wliitish, the tarsi red-brown. Fore wing rufous with a silvery 

 grey gloss ; some grey at base of inner margin, a curved red-brown subbasal 

 striga from costa, small wedge-shaped leaden grey patch below submedian fold 

 farther from the base and with a small dark-brown mark beyond it ; ante- 

 medial line red-brown defined on inner side by greyish, sHghtly excurved below 

 costa and cell ; an oblong black spot in lower part of cell before the reniform, 

 wliich has a white bar defined on each side by dark brown on its inner side, its 

 outer edge defined by white and black points, its lower extremity produced ; an 

 oblique red-brown shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin at the ante- 

 medial line ; postmedial Kne pale and almost obsolete towards costa, where it 

 is sUghtly angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, then dark brown 

 with some brown suffusion before and beyond it beyond the cell, obhque below 

 vein 4 and excurved at vein 1, some white points with red- brown between them 

 beyond it on costa ; an indistinct rufous subterminal band defined on each side 

 by rather diffused brown, excurved at middle and incurved above and below 

 raiddle ; an incurved white Une defined on outer side by dark brown before 

 termen from below apex to vein 4, white striae defined on outer side by dark 

 brown below veins 4, 3, and a small curved white mark defined on outer side 

 by dark brown at submedian fold. Hindwing fuscous brown tinged with grey ; 

 cilia white tinged with red-brown at base ; the underside white irrorated wth 

 dark brown, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 suffused with rufous, a 

 blackish discoidal spot, a dark postmedial line, waved to vein 2, then oblique, 

 a subterminal series of brown points to vein 2 and diffused mark below vein 2, 

 and a terminal series of shght dark lunules and striae. 



Hab. Venezuela, Esteban VaUey, Las Quiguas (Klages), 1 S type. Exp. 

 28 mill. 



Genus Conicochyta nov. 



Type : Ckijltonix olivxcea Wileman. 



Proboscis fully developed, palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons with pointed 

 conical prominence and ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male ciUated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests ; the crest on 4th segment very large. Forewing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and sUghtly crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from lU anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Coenoloca in the abdomen having a large crest on 4th 

 segment. 



3476a. Chytonix leucosema n. sp. 



Fore femora of male with tliick fringe of long scales ; abdomen with large 

 ventral tufts of long hair from base. 



(J. Head and thorax white tinged with buff, the tegulae buff- yellow ; 

 antennae dark brown, ringed with wliitish towards base; frons with black bars 



