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towards costu, riutlici' iVoiu the median and curved mi tlic liindwing ; tlie marginal 

 area Ijovnnd sulimaririnal line greyer. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons. 



Expanse of wings : S, TU — 74 mm. ; ? , 80 — 82 mm. 



1 <S,l ?, from Jalapa, Mexico, ti/pc ; 1 ?, Hnatnxco, Vera Crnz. 



The Vera Cruz specimen is very much brighter than the Jahipa examples. 



In his description of nyltafa Gnenee gives the expanse of the S, which lie 

 describes first, as SM mm., that of the ? as 72 mm. ; but, as far as I know, there is 

 no species of the genns Microyonia of which the ? is smaller than the i ; this, 

 therefore, is a /<;•/»?«/»(■»' cause for believing t1iat Guenee's ? was not conspecific 

 with his cT. The species which I have described above has liitherto l)een nsnally 

 identified as aqliata, but 1 do not think the iilentification correct ; for, though there 

 are several points in which the two agree, there are others which cannot be made to 

 fit in with both. 



332. Microgonia siccifolia spec. nov. 



Forewing : lilac-grey, washed with chocohite-brnwn, finely speckled with dark 

 atoms ; first line very indistinct, at one-third, forming two curves outwards, one 

 above, the other below the median vein ; outer line thick and distinct, chocolate- 

 brown, from inner margin just beyond middle towards apex, hardly convex 

 outwards, at vein 7 acutely angled and retracted to costa; space between the lines 

 tinged with chocolate-brown, deepening to outer line, the costal area remaining 

 lilac-grey ; outer area again becoming chocolate along the margin including the 

 fringe, remaining pale lilac-grey along the outer line ; cell-spot minute, black. 



liinduhig : ^itii-tlre outer line median. 



Underside dull olive-grey, thickly speckled, with a dark postmedian line in 

 both wings, not answering to those of the upperside. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous grey, like the base of forewing. 



Expanse of wings : 00 mm. 



1 ? from Agnalani, S.E. Peru, 1(i,immi ft., September 1901 (Ockenden). 



Forewing with apex produced, falcate ; hindmargin gibbons below the sub- 

 apical sinns. 



333. Microgonia subdecorata spec. nov. and ab. prunicolor nov. 



Foreiriiig : deep olive-brown, covered with fine dark striations ; the area within 

 the angle of the outer line from two-thirds of costa widening outwards to hind- 

 margin paler, more purely olive ; first line from one-third of costa to two-fifths of 

 inner margin, bent in cell ; outer line from three-fifths of inner margin straight 

 towards ajiex, before which it is acutely angulated on vein 7, and retracted to 

 costa ; submarginal line very obscure, marked by white dashes on veins ; fringe 

 concolorons, with pale tips ; cell-spot oval, wliitish, with a minute dark centre. 



Hindwing : with the line antemedian ; no visible cell-spot. 



Underside purplish brown along hiudmargins, all the rest of the wings suffused 

 with a dove-coloured sheen and varied with bhiish-white flecks and striae, these 

 chiefly in cell of forewing and along costa of b.ith wings ; cell-spots larger ; an 

 outer line of dark lunules, accompanied towards costa by bluish-white scales, not 

 corresponding to the oblique line of the upper surface, the uppermost lunula ou 

 hindwing forming a whitish blotch ; submarginal line better marked by whitish 



