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edge blacli, cilia dark grey ; forewings tinged yellowish on anterior 

 half, costal area to cell and vein 9 blackish, except a short fulvous 

 streak between 9 and 10 at base, a slender blackish bar on 

 transverse vein ; hindwiugs with transverse vein colourless. 



Brazil, Para, July (^Parish) ; 1 ex. Very near Pomponii Le Cerf 

 (referable here, not to Melitlia), but distinct by wholly black palpi 

 and abdomen. 



y Lepidopoda homotropha, n. sp. 



S . 14 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen dark blue-grey, face, 

 postorbital scales, and palpi white. Antenna) dark fuscous. Hairs 

 of posterior tibiae dark piu-plo -fuscous, a median, spot of white 

 sufl'usion, apical hairs mixed orange-fulvous. Wings purple-hyaline, 

 veins and terminal edge black, cilia dark grey ; forewings tinged 

 yellowish anteriorly, especially on dorsal area, costal area to cell 

 and vein 9 dark fuscous, a very fine ochreous-whitish line on 

 vein 11, a slender dark fuscous bar on transverse vein, bases of 

 veins beyond this colourless; hindwings with posterior margin 

 of cell between 2 and 7 and bases of veins beyond this colourless. 



Brazil, Manaos, November {Parhh) ; 1 ex. 



^ Sesia angarodes, n. sp. 



S. 20 mm. Head blue -black, orbits white. Palpi with 

 appressed scales, black, white beneath. Autonnse blackish. Thorax 

 purple-black, an orange-reddish stripe on each side adjoining patagia, 

 sternum broadly orange-reddish on each side. Abdomen blue-black, 

 a ventral whitish stripe, anal tuft long, purple-tinged. "Wings 

 hyaline, veins black, cilia dark fuscous ; forewings with costal 

 streak blue-black, dorsum slenderly black, a narrow blackish bar 

 on transverse vein, a purple-blackish terminal fascia broadly dilated 

 towards costa somewhat sprinkled ochreous-whitish anteriorly ; 

 hindwings with transverse vein colourless, a blackish terminal line. 



Brazil, Manaos, November {Parish) ; 1 ex. 



V Sesia xanthonympha, n. sp. 



2 . 17 mm. Head, thorax yellow, face white towards sides. 

 Palpi with appressed scales, yellow. Antennae blackish, beneath 

 yellowish. Abdomen yellow, segments dorsally blackish except 

 margin, anal tuft orange with suffused blackish dorsal blotch. 

 Wings hyaline, veins black, cilia yellowish, with fuscous basal and 

 apical shades ; forewings with costal streak purple-blackish, dorsal 

 edge blackish slightly edged yellowish, a narroAv direct blackish 

 bar on transverse vein edged yellowish posteriorly, neural black 

 lines thickened posteriorly and confluent on terminal edge, inter- 

 spaces dull yellowish on posterior half; hindwings with costal edge 

 yellowish, veins posterioily yellowish, transverse vein colourless. 

 Posterior tibiie yellow with blackish siib.ipical blotch, tursi blackish 

 with loose tuft of yellow scales at apex of first joint. 



Brazil, Para, June {/'arish) ; 1 ex. 



