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scales ; 1 h furcate, 2 from ^, 3-5 approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal-ovate, apex 

 obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, cilia |^ ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 rather 

 approximated, 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base. 



Approaching Sorotacta in technical characters, but differs in 

 absence of cubital pecten of hindwings, and more related to 

 Clielaria. 



Porpodryas prasinantha, n. sp. 



S . 31 mm. Head light browish-ochroous, tips of scales grey- 

 whitish. Palpi whitish somewhat sprinkled grey, three broad 

 bands of second joint and two oblique bands of terminal joint 

 blackish. Thorax whitish sprinkled grey and blackish. Abdomen 

 greyish speckled darker. Forewings elongate, narrow, posteriorly 

 hardly dilated, costa almost straight, arched towards obtuse apex, 

 termen rounded, oblique ; whitish irregularly sprinkled grey and 

 dark fuscous ; seven small narrow oblique semioval blackish spots 

 along costa, space between third and fourth suffused dark grey, 

 beneath this space an adjacent quadrate grey spot partly edged 

 blackish, edged beneath by a discal dark grey streak mixed with 

 light green and extended to end of cell ; short fine blackish dashes 

 beneath costa and above dorsum near base ; a longer blackish lino 

 on fold before middle ; an oval spot outlined with grey beneath 

 anterior part of discal median streak ; a strongly angulated grey 

 subterminal shade, marked with some blackish dashes between 

 veins; some short blackish marks before posterior part of costa and 

 termen, and some cloudy marginal dots : cilia grey sprinkled white, 

 basal half spotted blackish, a whitish apical spot. Hindwings 

 subhyaline prismatic whitish, apex narrowly suffused grey ; cilia 

 grey-whitish, a grey subbasal line. 



French Guiana, R. Maroni ; one specimen. 



Dichomeris brachygrapha, n. sp. 



S . 12 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, second 

 joint ochreous-brown except apical edge, tuft very long, pointed, 

 anterior edge of terminal joint blackish. Thorax whitish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen light greyish. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, faintly sinuate towards middle, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous ; a fine black 

 streak along basal fifth of costa, a black linear mark before middle, 

 a short blackish streak beyond middle, and a narrow semioval sj)ot 

 at I ; discal stigmata very small, black ; several small indistinct 

 spots of ochreous suffusion towards dorsum ; some indistinct fuscous 

 dots on termen : cilia whitish-ochraous. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



AssA.M, Khasis, April ; one specimen. 



Dichomeris adelocentra, n. sp. 



5 . 12 mm. Head, thorax pale greyish-ochreous, face whitish- 

 tinged. Palpi whitish, second joint with moderate rough tuft 

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