200 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



in submedian fold fulvous yellow. Underside white tinged ■i\ith reddish brown, 

 the forewing with some short chocolate-brown streaks on apical part of costa. 

 Hah. Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 S type. Exp. 40 mill. 



66986. Steniscadia albifera n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; antennae fuscous, the 

 basal joint rufous ; palpi dark grey-brown, white at tips ; abdomen grey suffused 

 with brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish suffused 

 with brown. Forewing whitish irrorated with dark brown to discal fold, the 

 area below it reddish brown mixed with some wliitish ; two indistinct sinuous 

 brown antemedial lines with a chocolate-brown mark between them at costa and 

 an elliptical spot beyond them in the cell ; two slightly waved brown medial hnes, 

 excurved to median nervure, then incurved, a white patch between and before 

 them at inner margin ; an elUptical white discoidal spot with two dark points 

 on it ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with white, minutely dentate, 

 slightly excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved, a chocolate-brown mark 

 beyond it on costa ; a sUghtly waved white subterminal Une, somewhat incurved 

 at discal fold ; a punctiform dark terminal line sUghtly defined on inner side by 

 whitish. Hindwing and underside uniform dark grey-brown. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui (Arce), 2 $ type. Exp. 24 mill. 



6801a. Stictothripa griseola n. sp. 



Palpi of male short and porrect ; hindwing with vein 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell to beyond middle. 



$. Head and tegulae silvery white ; thorax grey-white faintly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; antennae fuscous except towards base ; abdomen grey-white 

 irrorated with fuscous ; pectus and legs white irrorated with fuscous ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the medial segments irrorated with fiery rufous. 

 Forewing grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; a shghtly waved blackish ante- 

 medial line and more distinctly waved medial line ; a small black discoidal 

 spot ; the apical part of costa w ith short blacldsh streaks ; postmedial line 

 faint, fuscous, waved ; subterminal hne fuscous, somewhat dentate, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 3, almost conjoined to the postmedial line below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black spots defined by white and with a 

 slight fuscous shade before them. Hindwing white tinged with fuscous ; a 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia pure white. Underside suffused with fuscous ; 

 forewing with alternating black and wliitish marks on costa towards apex. 



Hah. Colombia, Choko Prov., Condoto (Spurrell), 1 ? type. Exp. 20 mill. 



Vestermanniauae. 



The genus Acontia was first described by Zincken, Erscli.and Griiber, .4Ug. Encyc. Wisx. i. p. 333 (1818), 

 typp liiHitosa, which comes in the subfamily Noctuinae. The genus called Acontia Treit., Cat. 

 Lep. I'hal. B.M. xi. p. 653, will stand as Xanthodes (3uen., and the subfamily as Vesternmnnianae 

 from the oldest genua in it. 



6938a. Carea purpureolineata n. sp. 



Cnrea hiriata Hnipsn.. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. xi. p. 551 ( $ nee J). 



Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow ; abdomen j^cUowish 

 tinged with red-brown ; antennae brown, rufous towards base ; palpi yellowi - 



