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Dochephora bullata sp. nov. 



Foreioings: whitish ciuereous, witli a slight flesh-coloured tinge, suffused witii 

 grev and with numerous wavy darker lines ; six of these near the base, making the 

 entire basal area darker; the sixth passes through tlie black cell-spot ; exterior line 

 curved outwards and wavy, followed by a pale fascia, which has a dark wavy line down 

 its centre ; this again by a fuscous fiiscia, edged witli darker and externally denticu- 

 lated on both sides; this is succeeded by the denticulate white subterminal line; 

 fringe whitish, chequered with dark grey, with a fine dark basal line. 



Hindwings : with six lines, the fourth most distinct, and forming a diffuse fascia ; 

 the sixth strongly dentate and blackish ; fringes as in forewings. The S is much 

 darker than the ? , with the swelling blackish. 



Face, palpi, top of head, front of thorax fawn-colour ; top of thorax white ; thorax 

 and abdomen fawn-colour mixed with white, with the segments darker. Underside 

 pale grey with the lines and cell-spots distinct. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



c? ? . S. Paolo, Brazil. 



Gymnodisca gen. nov. 



Wings ample : forewings with straight costa, curved hindmargin, and blunt ai)ex ; 

 hindwings with rounded hindmargin, which is very slightly waved. Eyes large ; fore- 

 head projecting below ; paljii three times as long as head, second joint verv long, rough 

 haired, third smooth, slender ; antennae simple in both sexes ; tongue present ; hind 

 tibiae of c? with foiu' spurs. 



Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular very oblique 

 and crooked ; in the c? the subcostal nervure is lient inwards ; first median from 

 shortly before end, second and third close togetlier from the end of cell ; lower radial 

 a little above tlie end of cell from the oblique lower arm of discocellular ; upper 

 radial from upper end of cell, which appears thickened ; areole oval ; fifth subcostal 

 and joint stem of second, third, and fourth from the rounded end of areole ; first 

 subcostal anastomosing with costal ; areole and space immediately below it beyond 

 cell, hyaline, devoid of scales. Neuration of ? normal. Hindwings with discocellular 

 oblique and angulated ; two subcostals on a short common stem ; first median at 

 three-fourths, second shortly before end, third from the end ; radial from the angula- 

 tion of the discocellular. 



Type : Gyranodisca ndyrifusa Warr. 



Distinguished from lildnoprora, to which genus it is closelv allied, l)v the 

 hyaline discal patches of the J forewings, and the neuration. 



Gymnodisca rubrifusa sp. nov. 



Forewings : a mixture of green, black, and rosy; basal patch very small; a broad 

 greenish central fascia, almost touching the basal patch, and having the outer edge 

 minutely waved and dentate; in the S much mixed with blackish, in the ? with 

 only the lower half black and some costal spots ; snljuiarginal fascia dark on costa, rosy 

 grey beneath, this also in the cJ mixed up with blackish ; space between it and the 

 central fascia rosy, except on costa, where it is gi-een ; marginal area greenish, in the 

 (J suffused with dark grey and pink scales ; fringe dark green, mottled with blackish. 



Hirulwings: pinky ochreous, with a bronzy appearance, with traces of a dark 

 grey basal and central fascia, and an irregular wavy and subinarginal fascia; fringe 

 with a dark basal line, and slightly chequered with darker. 



