banks: new xeuroptekoid insects. "359 



tibiae and tarsi wholly pale, hind logs dark, tarsi pale. Wings black, with 

 black hair, a narrow, white, interrupted band from near stigma to arculus. 

 Hind wings densely black-haired. In general similar to *S'. nigripenrm, but 

 the lateral male appendages as well as the superior median piece are much 

 shorter. 



Expanse 9 nun. 



Smicridea nigripennis, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,912. Colombia: Caldras, Cali (H. Fassl). 



Black, with mostly black liair, a patch of short, appressed white hair just 

 above and between the antennae; tips of palpi pale, legs black, middle tibia 

 white on the outer base, and these tarsi wholly pale whitish, front legs mostly 

 yellowish. Wings deep black, black haired, a curved, white band from stigma, 

 reaching nearly across wing, and another before middle from costa also reach- 

 ing nearly across; apical fringe white, outer angle and elsewhere black; hind 

 wings black. Venation as usual, end of discal cell is continuous with end of 

 median. Lateral appendages of male genitalia very long and slender, the basal 

 segment clavate. 



Expanse 8 to 9 mm. 



Smicridea macul.\ta, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,910. Brazil (Winthem coll.). 



Black; head and thorax mostly clothed with short rufous hair; antennae 

 dark brown; legs yellow brown, tarsi rather darker. Wings brown, ahiiost 

 black at apex; on the cubitus just beyond anal cell is a white spot, and several 

 white spots from stigma to arculus almost forming a band; fringe at extreme 

 apex of wing white, elsewhere brown; hind wings densely clothed with dark 

 brown hairs, and long brown fringe. Male genitalia shows the last part of the 

 lateral appendage enlarged at tip; the superior median plate only slightly 

 wider in middle than at the bilobed tip. 



Expanse 1.5 mm. 



Related to .S. albosignata, but much larger, and the appendages 

 different. It is the Chimarrha (f) macuJata of Hagen's South Ameri- 

 can list. 



Chimarril\ pumil,.\, sp. nov. 



Type.— :SI. C. Z. 10,908 Ecuador: Quevado (F. Rosenberg). 



Brown; head with some brown hair, but most of that in front and behind 

 is yellowish or grayish; antennae and palpi brown, latter with second and third 



