520 ■RXOTIC MICROLEPIDOrTERA. 



tliick streak beginning on dorsum near base, curved up from ^ and 

 sinuate to dit^c above and before middle, extremity truncate and 

 witb short projections at each angle ; area above and within the 

 curve of this streak paler-suffused and rosy -tinged ; some whitisli- 

 ochreous suffusion on transverse vein and towards costa above tliis; 

 beyond this a darker subquadrato patch occupying costal half of 

 wing on apical area, costal and terminal portions deep ferr\iginous 

 with close leaden striae, remainder dark fuscous with several leaden 

 strife ; above tornus three irregular blackish dots edged chestnut- 

 brown. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Colombia, San Antonio, 5800 feet, November ; 2 ex. 



Omiostola adamantea, n. sp. 



cJ $ . 18-20 mm. Head purple-ochreous, upper part of face dark 

 fusoous, below this a round spot of whitish suffusion. Palpi dark 

 fuscous. Thorax fuscous, obscure stripes of ochreous eufl'usion on 

 each side of back anteriorly, sides purplish-tinged. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, termen somewhat bowed, 

 nearly vertical ; 7 and 8 separate ; deep purple suffused violet-blue 

 in disc ; costa with two small ferruginous spots before middle, 

 on posterior half rather broadly ferruginous with five or six violot- 

 blue strigse, first two or three uniting and continued to termen 

 beneath apex, beneath middle of this some fine black striation 

 separated by whitish- ochreous ; at -I of disc several small whitisli 

 dots in a transverse series ; upper part of terminal edge ferru- 

 ginous, before middle of termen a transverse pale shining blue 

 mark i^receded by two black dots ringed grey-whitish: cilia glossy 

 bronzy purple-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 



JiEAZiL, Alanaos, November {Parish) ; 5 ex. 



Spilonota cryptogramma, n. sp. 



S 15 mm., $ 18 mm. Head, thorax grey, in $ irro rated 

 white. Palpi grey, obscurely barred darker. Antennal notch in 

 (S at \. Forewings elongate, in J somewhat dilated, with broad 

 costal fold from base to middle, termen slightly rounded, somewhat 

 oblique; dark grey, speckled or irrorated white; costa with dark 

 grey marks passing into brownish posteriorly, costal fold in 6 

 barred blackish ; some iiregular brownish sufi'u&ion along fold from 

 base to middle, where it forms an irregular blotch with slight tuft 

 of scales, above this in J a patch of dark fuscous suffusion ; u])})er 

 half of central fascia in J rather narrow' , irregular, rather oblique, 

 dark fuscous, in § obsolete, lower half in both sexes represented 

 by a brown-grey or dark fuscous subtriangular spot before tornus ; 

 in § a narrow black depressed streak in disc from middle to | 

 edged brownish, with slight tuft of scales : two or three brownish 

 strigse from costa posteriorly ; in c? an irregular transverse brown 

 blotch marked with dark fuscous towards termen in disc, and spots 

 on apex and middle of termen, in $ only some indistinct brownish 

 suffusion: cilia grey speckled whitish, in $ indistinctly barred 



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