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Subfamily MECOCERATINAE. 

 1'-'. Hyphedyle siibornata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dark brown, aloug basal half of costa with fine white striae, along 

 inner-marginal half of wing blurred grey with brown-grey striae, tinged with 

 yellowish along median and submedian veins ; the deep brown area extending 

 from costa a little before middle to hindmargin above anal angle ; just bevond 

 middle of costa is a large cream-white blotch reaching vein (5 and tinged there with 

 brownish, touching a snow-white heart-sliaped blotch between veins 5 and 7, above 

 the upper lobe of which is a small ronnd spot also snow-white ; fringe brown. 



Hindioiny : grey, densely striated with darker grey, becoming smoky brownish 

 along hindmargin ; cell-spot dark ; fringe brown. 



Underside of forewing brown with bluish white striae, thickened towards 

 hindmargin and forming a subapical patch ; the costal blotch yellower and striated 

 with reddish ; the white blotch and spot as above ; the veins yellowish brown ; 

 the whole inner margin below median vein and vein 3 dead white; fringe brown : 

 hindwiug bluish white with brown striations ; the veins towards hindmargin 

 yellowish brown ; a dark cell-spot ; fringe brown. 



Head and thorax brown dusted with paler ; abdomen cinereous ; legs whitish 

 spotted with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 i from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 0000 ft., April 1002, end 

 of wet season (Ockenden). 



Both the sex and genus of this insect remain doubtful. . The antennae are 

 subserrate, with distinct ciliations, but there is no sign of a frenulum or a c? 

 retinaculum, and the abdomen appears to be that of a ? ; the neuration is normal. 

 The hindmargin of forewing is bluntly protuberant between veins 5 and 6, with 

 a shallow excavation above to the blunt apex which does not reach as far as 

 the projection, below which tlie margin is oblirpiely curved; hindwing with both 

 angles and hindmargin well rounded. 



13. Phellinodes absentimacula spec. nov. 



This species is like Iledi/le lucivittata Wlk. both in coloration and markings, 

 exce])t that it lacks the large white blotch beyond the cell of the forewing which 

 characterises that species. The hindmargin of forewing also differs, being 

 vertical from apex to middle, not excised and gibbous as in lucivittata. 



Exj)anse of wings : 60 mm. 



One c? from Salidero, N.W. Ecuador, February — March 1001 (Flemming 

 and Miketta). 



I have seen only two examples of lucivittata besides the type : all three 

 are ¥ ? ; it is therefore possible that absentimacula is the S ; bat I know of 

 no other instance in which the wing-markings of the sexes differ in this group. 



14. Phellinodes albifascia spec. nov. 



Foreioinc/ : at base smoky gre)-, speckled and striated with blackish grey, 

 the ground-colour aloug costa whitish ; this grey area reaches along inner 

 margin to anal angle, along costa to two-fifths only, its outer obliijue edge 

 undefined ; on the submedian fold at about one-half it contains a snjall biackisli 



