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Hyphenopliora gnx. nov. 



Forewings ample ; costa weakly arched ; ajiex blunt, almost loiindod ; liiiul- 

 margin entire, curved, llindwings with hindmargin entire, well rounded. Antennae 

 simple in both sexes, long ; palpi ponect ; tongue present ; forehead slightl3' pro- 

 tuberant, rounded ; hind tibiae of cj with four spurs, the last pair quite short; legs 

 and abdomen long. Xeuration : forewings, cell barely lialf the length of wing ; 

 discocellular obtusely anguiated ; first median nervule from three-fifths ; second and 

 third from end of cell, the third close behind the second ; lower radial fi-om angle of 

 discocelluiar ; upper from upper end of cell ; last three subcostals on a common stem 

 from shortly before end of cell, the subcostal nervure at its origin being slightly bent 

 inwards ; the fourth subcostal branch runs into the apex, and the third verv short 

 into the costal margin ; first and second subcostals on a common stem, which 

 anastomoses with the costal. Hindwings with the median nervules as in forewings, 

 the two subcostals answering to the second and third medians; .scaling fine and 

 close ; both wings with a submarginal line of metallic spots shaped like a hyphen. 



Tyjie : H. perlimbata Gueu. (Fulyas). 



Hyphenophora palumbata sp. nov. 



Wings pale dove colour ; costa dotted with blacki.sh ; a black distinct cell 

 spot ; submarginal metallic line as in perlimbata Cruen. ; on the inner margin 

 of forewings before the submarginal line is an abbreviated pale yellowish oblique 

 fascia form marking, and a shorter one on the costa of the hindwings just lielow 

 it. Head, abdomen, and underside, as well as fringes, concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



One cJ from E. Niger. 



Ballantiophora innotata sp. nov. 



?. Extremely near B. gil/hiferata (iueu. Costa of forewings more naiTowly 

 and paler gilded ; both wings without any darker shading before the hindmargins, 

 and without the black spots at base of fringes ; fringe of forewings golden ; of 

 hindwings pure white ; the spots forming the transverse lines are smaller and 

 more regularly placed ; towards the hindmargins of both wings are some scattered 

 very fine gilded atoms, not strigae, as in gibbiferata. 



One ? from Petropolis. 



Leuciris gen. nov. 

 Hiibner, in the Verzeichniss, p. 307, gives under Chi-ysocestis, auraria ( = aii,ra 

 Cram.) 2962, and cmicmnaria Hub. 2963. Of these concinnaria was mentioned 

 and figured first, in the Zidrdge, i., p. 32, No. 100, figs. 199, 200 ; auraria occurring 

 in iii., p. 39, No. 296, figs. 591, 592. But the two species are not congeneric. 

 Consequently cmicinnaria must be taken as the type of Chrysocestis, to the 

 exclusion of GueneJe's subsequent Molybdophm'a ; aura Cram, thus becomes 

 the type of Palyas Guen. The two species fimbriaria and fimbrialis StolL, 

 though called Chrysocestis by Walker, have no right whatever to that name, 

 and a new one becomes necessary. Ilerrich Scliaeffer's C'hrysotaenia cannot be 

 employed, as the two species referred by him to that genus are cultrata Hlib., 

 and formosante Cram. 



