244 w. SCHAUS. 



Pseiidapicia basivirida. — Head violaceous brown. Body bright olive 

 green. Wings witli the basal half bright olive green, the outer half violaceous 

 brown. Primaries: costal margin violaceous brown; an inner reddish brown 

 line, curved in cell, then slightly oblique to inner margin ; an outer reddish brown 

 line, angled on costa, the angle with a dark streak to apex ; this line followed by 

 an irregular darker shade of brown; discal spot minute, black. Secondaries: a 

 median reddish brown line; some outer darker brown shadings; fringe dark 

 reddish brown. Underneath greenish yellow, striated with dull brown. Prin)a- 

 ries: abroad dark shade in place of inner line; outer line distinct; the costa 

 dark grey, with a whitish spot before apex ; outer margin mostly reddish brown. 

 Secondaries with outer half reddish brown ; median line distinct. Expanse 25 mm. 



Hab. — Peruvian Amazons. 



The margins are slightly angled, as in Apicia cayennaria Gn. 



Pseiidapicia ? pallidaria. — Shape and general appearance of Apicia 

 plehejata Snell., which also has simple antennae. Wings dark buff; a fine outer 

 line, reddish, outwardly shaded with yellow; there is a black sjiot at the angle 

 of this line below costa of primaries, and the angle is not so close to apex as in 

 plehejata; on primaries a similar inner line inwardly shaded with yellow, and a 

 black discal spot ; base of fringe slightly darker. Underneath yellowish buff; the 

 apex of primaries slightly irrorated with black ; some outer dark points on veins 

 below costa of primaries; black discal points on both wings. Expanse 25 mm. 



Hah. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Acrotomodes chiriqiieusiM. — %. Body grey above, reddish brown 

 below. Wings greyish brown, irrorated with a few dark spots. Primaries: costa 

 dark brown, irrorated with grey ; some violaceous brown at base ; an inner broad 

 violaceous brown shade, continuing above vein 2 to beyond the outer line, and 

 almost reaching apex on costa; the outer line fine, darker, dentate-lunular ; a 

 subtermiual dark brown spot above inner margin, and another between veins 3 

 and 4; fringe reddish brown. Secondaries greyish brown, tinged with lilacine; 

 the outer margin shaded with violaceous brown, especially at apes ; a reddish 

 brown basal line; a dentate indistinct outer line; some subterminal reddish 

 brown shadings. Underneath reddish brown. The primaries to outer line are 

 tinged with lilacine; some black irrorations; the outer line black, more heavily 

 marked on primaries than on secondaries; a pale mark at apex of primaries. 



9 . — Similar underneath, but still darker. Above dark violaceous irrorated 

 with whitish scales, the outer line reddi.sh brown, lunular; a median narrow 

 dark shade, angled on costa; paler subterminal shades; subterminal black spots 

 above inner margin, between 4 and 5. and 6 and 7; from the last spot to apex a 

 whitish line. Expanse % 26 mm., 9 30 mm. 



Hab. — Chiriqui. 



Etiseiiea parva. — Primaries: the base brown, limited by a dark grey 

 line; the inner space greyish brown, limited by a dark grey line, angled in cell ; 

 the median space dark reddish brown, limited by the outer line, which is nearly 

 straight, lilacine; the discal spot dark grey, circled with black; the marginal 

 space and fringe light brown ; some ])lack marginal spots shaded witli white be- 



