178 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



slightly waved, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, some \vhite points bej-ond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line silvery white, oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal 

 fold, angled outwards at vein 4 to termen and ending on termen at vein 1, the 

 area beyond it dark red-brown ; cilia ocbreous tinged with rufous and with a 

 rufous line at middle. Hindwing ocbreous strongly suffused with rufous, the 

 terminal area deep rufous to submedian fold ; an indistinct curved rufous post- 

 medial line and subterminal white points below veins 7 and 5 ; cilia ocbreous 

 tinged with rufous. Underside of forewing ochreous tinged with brown, the 

 costal area tinged with rufous, the cUsk suffused with bro^^n, a white discoidal 

 bar, postmedial line rather diffused brown, incurved below vein 4, a truncate dark 

 brown patch from termen from below vein 7 to below 5 beyond the indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line ; hindwing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with red-brown, two sinuous red-brown medial lines, a sinuous red-brown post^ 

 medial line and dark brown striae on termen from apex to vein 4. 



Hub. Fern, San Domingo (Ockenden), 1 $ type. Exp. 24 mill. 



Genus Hypangitia no v. 



Type : H. peraiopis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending about 

 twice the length of head and fringed wth hair above and below, the 3rd moderate 

 and thickly scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

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

 fringed with hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Forewing 

 with the costa arched towards base, then nearly straight, the apex rounded, 

 the termen rather obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 7, 8 

 stalked ; 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



In key differs in the forewing having veins 7, S stallied and 9, l(i stalked, 



5536. Hypangitia peratopis n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey- white mixed with some red- brown ; 

 antennae red-brown ringed with whitish ; palpi and fore- and midlegs dark 

 red-brown, the tarsi ringed with w liitish. Forewing grej'- white slightlj' irrorated 

 with dark brown, a semicircular area extending on costa from middle to apex 

 and to submedian fold before termen suffused with red- brown ; a semicircular 

 deep-chocolate patch on basal costal area, defined below by whitish ; two 

 indistinct curved pale red-brown antemedial Unes, and two similar medial lines 

 from discal fold at end of cell to inner margin ; a down-curved chocolate-brown 

 hne from middle of costa to before termen below an apical mark formed by a 

 deep-chocolate spot defined on inner side by a white lunule, two wiiite points 

 before it on costa ; a sinuous whitish postmedial line from the curved line to 

 inner margin ; the termen below the apical mark wliite with chocolate- brown 

 striae on it. Hindwing wliitish tinged with red-brown, the terminal area strongly 

 suffused with red-brown except towards tornus ; faint red-brown postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. Underside of forewing suffused with red-brown ; iiind- 



