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248. Stenalcidia latimedia spec. nov. 



Fonucimj : white, with very line greenish grey striations ; costa greyer, 

 with dark grey striae ; inner and outer lines fine, concisely black ; inner from 

 one-sixth of costa, excnrved above and below median vein, to inner margin 

 near base ; outer from two-thirds of costa, rnnning outwards to vein 4, with a 

 small angle on vein (!, then bluntly bent at right angles, and running inwards, 

 forming a large sinus in submedian interspace and an outward angle on vein 1 ; 

 a small dark grey cell-spot ; above it a dark grey oblique median line rises 

 from costa and is continued as a very fine lunnlate reddish thread to inner 

 margin, almost touching outer line at the sinus ; marginal area suffused with 

 flesh-coloured grey, containing a series of elongate black blotches edged and 

 tipped with white, representing the submarginal line, and a row of large black 

 marginal spots, not quite touching the margin ; fringe pinky white. 



1 li lid winy : with the median line thick and dark, sinuous, prei^eded by a 

 cloud of fuscous and reddish or olive striae ; cell-spot blackish, outside the 

 median line ; outer half of wing as in forewing, but the postmedian line 

 followed by a rufous fnscons shade. 



Underside of forewing dark cloudy grey with broad dull smoky blackish 

 marginal border ; fringe and extreme hindmargin dull grey, showing dark 

 marginal spots. Hindwing paler, dull grey with slight submarginal apical 

 cloud ; cell-spots on both wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen wliitish, like wings ; anal half of dorsum tinged 

 with fuscous ; face white with a black bar above and below ; palpi externally 

 black, the apical segment whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



A iS from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 6000 ft., November 190], 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



A very distinct species, sniierHcially recalling Bryoptera. 



240. Tephronia (?) novella spec. nov. 



Forcicing : pale dusty grey, without markings, except traces of two oblique 

 lines from beyond middle of inner margin towards apex ; cell-spot minute ; 

 a fine black marginal line, forming dots between the veins ; fringe pale. 



Iliiulu-ijiy : paler ; cell-spot distinct ; traces of the lines only at hindmargin. 



Underside of forewing darker; both wings dusted with grey scales. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; abdomen with a donble row of 

 blackish dorsal spots. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 cJ from Ecuador. 



The species is placed provisionally in the Old-World genus Tephronia. 



Subfamily SCOTOPTERYGINAE. 



250. Catascia haydenata ab. obliterata nov. 



Larger than the type form of haj/diriiata Pack., and without any dark grey 

 and fuscous shading, the ground colour being pale stone-colour with light 

 olive-grey speckling ; the lines obscure ; the costal edge alone dark grey. 



1 3 from Glenwood Sjjrings, Colorado (Oslar), accompanied by two of the 

 ordinary dark form. 



