( 148 ) 



HindwiiKjs: like forewing-s, but the whole of the marginal area beyond the line 

 is sufifused with olive, and contains an indistinctly marked zigzag darker line ; a 

 minute black cell-spot in each wing; fringes dark olive, with the wing jialer at 

 their base. 



Tliorax and abdomen concolorous with the wings. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar 

 chestuut-brown. Underside paler, cinereous olive, sufifused in forewings along the 

 hindmargin with brownish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One c? from S. Paolo. 



Microgonia sociata sp. nov. 



Like Twctwitaria Wlk. and distichata Guen. above ; but the oblique line is straight, 

 and slightly waved at the veins. The underside is ochreous drab, with a few scattered 

 neat blackish spots, traces of a curved exterior line, and two large blackish blotches, 

 one on each wing, that on the hindwing corresponding to the black blotch of the 

 upperside, that on the forewing being on the inner margin before the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings : 72 mm. 



Three <S <S from S. Paolo and Petropolis. 



Microgonia vesulia. 



Ph(d. Geoni. vesulia Cram., Pap. Ex., iii., p. 79, PI. ccxl., figs, ii, c. Surinam. 

 Oxydia „ Wlk., xx., p. 53 ; xxvi., p. 1481. 



„ „ Moeschl., Surinam, p. 396. Surinam. 



„ „ „ Jamaica, p. 67. Jamaica. 



„ „ „ Portorico, p. 257. Portorico. 



„ „ Druee, Biol. Centr. Am. Lep. Het., ii., p. mi. 



„ vesuliata Guen., Phal., i., [i. 60. 



Hulst, Ent. Am., 1886, ii. 3, p. 47. S. Florida. 

 Choerodes transponens Wlk., xx., p. 20, cJ. Type in Pirit. ."Nlus. S. Domingo. 

 Oxydia agliuta Wlk., xx., pp. 54, 63 (part ?). 



A-arjliata H.S., Con: BL, 1870, p. 186. Cuba. 

 „ qmidriagliata Gundl., Contr. Ent. Cuba, p. 397. 



„ aromata Bruce, I.e., p. 27, PI. xliii., fig. 11, V. Type in Schaus 



collection. Mexico. 



Fillet between antennae always white. As a rule the .lamaica forms vi' the 6 <i 

 are darker than those from South America. 



In (t(jli(da Guen. the fillet is never white. 



Microxydia gen. nov. 



Foretv inr/8 : short and broad; costa evenly arched from ba.se to apex, which is 

 bluntly rectangular; hindmargin oblique, faintly curved. 



Hindivinf/s : with hindmargin entire, fairly rounded. 



Forewings with fovea ; palpi very short, weak ; tongue present ; antennae 

 lamellate, thickened towards base ; hind tibiae with four spm-s. Nem-ation normal ; 

 scaling glossy. 



Type : Microxydia orsitaria Guen. {Stegania). 



