NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 159 



5022h. Photolosia micralis n. sp. 



9. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with reddish brown ; 

 antennae dark brown ringed with whitish, the basal joint white ; palpi, pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen except at extremity white suffused with 

 rufous. Forewing grey-white tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark 

 brown ; traces of double antemedial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 dark Unes and of a dark discoidal spot ; the terminal half of costa dark brown, 

 with oblique white striae from it ; the terminal area red-brown with a deep 

 rufous terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous. Hindwing grey- white 

 suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark-brown. Underside 

 whitish suffused with red-brown, the hindwing with small dark discoidal spot. 



Hab. Mexico, Teapa, Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 1 $ type. Exp. 14 mill. 



5Q221. Phobolosia argentifera n. sp. 



(J. Head whitish tinged with yellow ; antennae yellow ringed with brown ; 

 frons dark brown at sides ; palpi dark browTi, the 3rd joint whitish ; thorax 

 and abdomen yellow ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with yellow. Forewing 

 yellow, the basal area with some yellowish white except towards costa and the 

 basal half irrorated with a few black-brown scales ; the costal edge black-browTi 

 towards base ; a slight subbasal brown streak below costa ; an obliquely curved 

 brown antemedial line from costa to discal fold and an obUque brown striga 

 from costa above end of cell ; an oblique silvery discoidal bar bent outwards 

 below the cell to join a slight silvery streak in submedian fold from near base to 

 termen ; a silvery streak on inner margin from near termen ; an obliquely 

 curved postmedial yellowish white band from veins 7 to 2 with rather diffused 

 outer edge ; some minute brown points on costa towards apex ; a terminal 

 series of black-brown striae defined on inner side by silvery spots ; ciha inter- 

 sected with brown except at base. Hindwing yeDow, the base, costal area, and 

 submedian fold yellowish white ; a blackish postmedial Hue from vein 5 to sub- 

 median fold with a patch of silvery irroration from before it to termen ; a rather 

 diffused blackish subterminal bar between veins 4 and 2 ; a fine black terminal 

 line from below apex to vein 2 ; cilia with some blacldsh scales at tips. Under- 

 side creamy white irrorated with red-brown ; forewing with the costa yellow 

 except towards base, a brown discoidal spot with bar above it from costa, a 

 curved brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2, some brown spots beyond it 

 on costa, a terminal series of black points from below apex to vein 3 ; hindw ing 

 with red-brown discoidal spot, postmedial line curved to vein 2, then oblique 

 to submedian fold near termen, a punctiform black-brown terminal line from 

 apex to vein 3. 



Hob. Brazil, Amazons, Paraiia de Buyassu (Austen), 1 <J type. Exp. 20 

 miU. 



Genus Oediblemma nov. 



Type: Oe. trojoptera. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending about one and a half 

 times length of head and fringed with hair above and below, the 3rd joint short ; 

 frons with large rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female 

 ciUated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae 



