(578) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; basal segment of abdomen with a 

 brown ring. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Cavabaya, S.E. Pern, 0500 ft., October 1902, 

 dr}' season (Ockeudeu). 



189. Paracomistis plumosa spec. nov. 



Foreicing : lavender-grey, densely dusted with fine blackish atoms ; the costa 

 with short dark striae ; the lines all marked by dark dots on the veins ; the first, 

 curved, cIo.se to base ; the median before the middle ; the onter from three-fonrths of 

 costa to two-thirds of inner margin, parallel to hindmargin, marked by larger black 

 points, and followed below middle by an olive-ochreous shade ; snbmarginal Hue 

 very obscare, but indicated by olive-oehreous wedge-shaped sjjots preceding and 

 slighter marks following it from costa to vein 4, where the olive-ochreons tint 

 appears to pass to the outer line ; large black marginal spots between the veins and 

 small ones at the vein-ends at the base of the grey fringe, which is somewhat 

 glossy ; cell-spot small, black. 



Ilindwing : paler, with antemodian and postmedian dark Hues, not reaching 

 above vein 6, the onter lunulate-dentate and followed by an olive-ochreons shade ; 

 cell-spot black. 



Underside darker, the forewing suffused with brownish grey ; cell-spots and 

 outer lines indicated ; marginal spots absent. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; face below and collar darker ; abdomen 

 with pairs of dark spots ; palpi externally dark ; vertex white. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



1 c? from Limbaui, Carabaj'a, S.E. Pern, November 1901, wet season 

 (Ockenden). 



This differs from typical Paracomistis in having a decided fovea in the forewing 

 and in the more plumose antennae. 



190. Pero olivacea spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull olive, slightly dusted with darker ; the median area darker, 

 especially before outer line ; first line edged outwardly with dark from costa, but 

 obscure below median vein, forming three rounded curves of equal size to one-third 

 of inner margin ; onter line oblique from three-fourths of costa to three-fil'tlis of 

 inner margin, with two similar protuberances beyond cell and in submedian interval, 

 with a sinus inwards between them ; a slight pale cloud indicates the cell-mark ; 

 the line is followed by an olive cloud, containing darker lunulate S{K)ts ; marginal 

 area paler, with a deeper shade at apex to vein 3, and a smaller cloud above anal 

 angle ; a white snbmarginal spot above vein 0, and a black one above vein 2 ; fringe 

 deep olive. 



Ilindwing : with a dark curved line beyond middle, the space beyond somewhat 

 paler tiian the basal area; a white sjwt above vein C, and a black spot ou each side 

 of vein 3. 



Underside paler olive, especially along inner margins ; a postmedian crinkled 

 dark line on both wings ; a pale space with dark centre ou discocellular of 

 forewing, a black cell-spot ou Ilindwing ; apex of forewing whitish ; the white 

 Bubmarginal spots 2>rominent. 



