138 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXV. 1918. 



at sides, palpi black mixed with some buff, the extremity of 2nd joint and the 

 3rd joint buff, the latter with black spot at sides ; abdomen black-brown mixed 

 with some grey, the basal crest buS-white, the anal tuft rufous, black at 

 extremity ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen buff, the fore femora 

 fringed \\ith long brown scales, the tarsi suffused with dark brown towards 

 extremities, the base of abdomen with large ventral tufts of fuscous hair tinged 

 with grey followed by subventral seiies of brown points. Forewing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area 

 grejf-green to vein 2, the basal area with some creamy white; a waved white 

 subbasal line defined by dark brown scales from costa to vein 1 and a dark brown 

 mark on inner margin ; antemedial Une buff defined at sides by dark scales, 

 white at costa, waved ; an elUptical white discoidal spot ; a black-brown medial 

 shade, ari.sing below costa, obUque to lower angle of cell, then erect ; post^ 

 medial hne almost obsolete and oblique to vein 6, then sUght, dark, dentate 

 and produced to wliite points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white and incurved tow ards costa, 

 then represented by white points, angled outwards almost to termen at vein 4, 

 then just before termen ; ciUa red-brown with some white scales, white at tips 

 from vein 2. to submedian fold. HindAving dark cupreous brown, the ciUa white 

 at tips. Underside of forewing fuscous, the costal area buff, the discoidal spot 

 and a patch at middle of termen white, the subterminal line white and waved, 

 defined on inner side b3' fuscous on the costal area ; liindw ing pale buff, the basal 

 half and inner area irrorated with large black-brown scales, a black discoidal 

 bar and dark postmedial line obhque towards costa. 



Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas (Klages), 1 <? type. Ex-p. 

 26 mill. 



Genus Oedibrya nov. 



Type : Catamecia cinnamnmina Rotlis. 



Proboscis aborted and small ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd siiort ; frons 

 with rounded prominence with curved corneous plate below it ; c\'es large, 

 round ; antennae of male ciUated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales ; 

 the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 without crests. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Leiometopun in the palpi being obliquely upturned, the 

 frons with corneous plate below it and the metathorax with depressed crest. 



3524a. Bryopbila atrimixta n. sp. 



cJ. Head and thorax black mixed with whitish and some rufous ; antennae 

 black, ringed with whitish towards base ; palpi black with some white in front 

 and at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; abdomen white tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with blackish, the crests and base of anal tuft black ; pectus and legs 

 white tinged with rufous and irrorated with blackish, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 black, the latter ringed with white. Forewing black mixed with some white 



