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297. Eutomopepla fiilgorifera sjiec. nov. 



Foreicimi : drab, speckled with black ; the costa ochreous, with oblique black 

 striae ; cell-spot black, distinct ; first line at one-fourth, white, lunuiate, to one- 

 third of inner margin ; outer line at three-fourths, luilk-white, acutely angled 

 outwards above vein 6 and inwards on vein 6, below vein 4 marked by a dark 

 lunuiate shading, with black dashes on the veins, or with white dashes, and 

 sometimes obsolete ; submarginal line white, zigzag to vein 6, then as outer line ; 

 veins 5, 0, 7 finely white between outer and submarginal lines; fringe concolorous. 



Iliiulwim/ : with dark cell-spot and traces of median and submarginal lines, 

 in the space between which above anal angle is a large quadrate blotch of 

 coal-black striae on a smoky-black ground. 



Underside with more plentifnl black striations ; markings of upperside partly 

 expressed ; apex of forewing ochreous ; hindwing with a whitish submarginal line. 



Thorax and abdomen concolorous ; face, vertex, and collar edged with milk- 

 white ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs white, the last spotted with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



3 cJc? from San Ernesto, Bolivia, lUi.)0 m., August, September 19U0 (Simons). 



Hemixera gen. nov. 



Forewing : elongate ; costa strongly arched at base, then straight ; apex 

 rectangular ; hindmargin bluntly bent at vein 4, vertical above, oblique below. 



IlindiciiKj : narrow ; inner margin short ; hindmargin curved from vein 7, the 

 apex subtruncate : in the ? with a small tooth at vein 4 and slight sinus 

 above it. 



Antennae lamellate, simple ; palpi quite short, not reaching front of face, 

 which is rounded ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibia with four spurs. 



Forewing in the c? with the wing-membrane below median vein thinly scaled 

 and stretched, the foveal bar developed, but without actual fovea. 



Nearation : forewing, cell more than half as long as wing ; discocellular 

 vertical ; first median nervule at five-eighths, second at eleven-twelfths ; radials 

 normal; 7, 8, 9 long-stalked; 10 free; 11 short, anastomosing and becoming 

 coincident with 12 ; hindwing, costal and subcostal approximated for about half 

 of cell ; veins 7 and 3 both before angles of cell. 



Tj'pe : Hemixera ortliosiodeii spec. nov. 



298. Hemixera orthosiodes spec. nov. 



Forewing : olive-yellow, with neat olive-grey striae ; the costa with vinous-red 

 striae, in the ? somewhat suffused with that colour ; lines vinous red, slenden 

 starting from black-red costal blotches ; first at two-fifths, nearly vertical ; second 

 from two-thirds of costa, oblique outwards and acutely angled on vein (!, then 

 oblique to two-thirds of inner margin ; before apex is another black-red blotch, 

 outwardly marked with a white spot ; fringe with basal half deep crimson, marginal 

 half white with black chequering beyond veins ; cell-spot linear, olive grey. 



Hindwing : yellowish white, uns|}eckled ; some reddish striae along inner 

 margin ; a faint rcddisli submarginal line towards apex, starting from a red spot 

 at three-fourths of inner margin ; fringe yellow, chequered with reddish. 



Underside of both wings yellow, the inner margin of forewing whitish 



