( 1^3 ) 



lUwhi-iMj : with the broad line mediau, following the cell-spot ; slight signs 

 of a submarginal line towards anal angle. 



Underside similar, with the lines oliscurely luarki'd. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen all straw-colour. 

 E.xpanse of wings : 33 mm. 



1 ? from Bnlim, Ecuador, December lOuii — Fcbrnary llHil (Flemming k 

 Miketta). 



The single specimen is mnch wasted, but it is manifestly distinct from any 

 described species. 



323. Melinodes contacta spec. nov. 



Vorcivimj : dull yellow, thickly striated with greyish fnlvons ; costal edge pale 

 with brown striae ; lines grey-brown ; first from oue-fonrth of costa to one-third 

 of inner margin, sinuous, slightly oblique below costa and before margin, 

 preceded by a grey shade marked with fine white dashes on veins ; outer line from 

 three-fourths of costa, oblique and straight above vein 3, then bluntly bent at right 

 angles to vein 2, thence vertical to two-thirds of inner margin, followed by a grey 

 shade marked with white dots on veins ; an obscurely luiiulate-deutate submarginal 

 line near hiudmargin, curved inwards to touch outer line at vein 3 ; fringe ochreous 

 chequered with grey; cell-spot grey-brown, somewhat elongated. 



lliuthriixj : like forewing, but without first line. 



Underside pale ochreous, with the lines and cell-spots lirown ; forewing thickly 

 speckled with fuscous. 



Head, thora.x, and alidomen like wings; verte.x: brighter ochreous; face and 

 palpi grey. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



2 c?c? from Charaplaya, Bolivia, IStiij m., June lOOl (Simons). 

 Greatly resembling M. furca AVari'., but the (inter line quite different. 



Mesedra gen. nov. 



The species for which this genus is proposed are separated from Ajncia 

 Guen., in which the cjtj have fully pectinated antennae, on the one hand, and 

 from Fseudapicia Schaus, where those antennae are quite simple, by having 

 antennae with angulated joints, each angle capped with a tubercle ending in a 

 fascicle of cilia. The costa of forewing is not straight, but strongly arched 

 throughout ; the liindmargiu of forewing sliglitly elbowed in the ? only, that of 

 hindwing projecting as a small tooth in middle iu both se.xes. Tiio neuratiou 

 likewise differs: in the forewing vein 9 does not rise separately from the cell, 

 but is stalked with 7, ^, anastomosing in the nsnal way, first with lo, 11, and 

 subsequently with 8 ; in the hindwing the costal and subcostal are not merely 

 approximated, but closely contiguous for half the cell. 



Type : Mesedra conjinis spec. nov. 



Eusarca ? parallelaria Warr. and Ajncia cenusta Dogn. will also come into 

 this genus. 



324. Mesedra confinis spec. nov. 

 S. Foreicing : dull ochreous, speckled with blackish ; the lines very indistinct, 

 pale brownish, but marked by black spots on the veins ; first from one-fourth of 

 costa to one-fourtli of inner margin, bent iu the cell, followed by the black spots; 



