GLliPniPTERYGID^. 99 



Mictopsichia periopta, u. sp, 



S. 18-19 mm. Head grey, face ochreous barred with grej'. 

 Palpi pale ochreous. Thorax dark grey mixed with ochreous, and 

 barred with leadeu-raetallic. Abdomen dark grey, segmental 

 margins mixed with pulo ochreous, Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa slightly ai'ched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, some- 

 what oblique, rounded beneath ; dark fuscous ; a short pale 

 ochreous-yellow subcoital streak from base, edged with blue- 

 leaden-metallic, costa above it dotted with orange ; two slightly 

 curved transverse blue-leaden- metallic lines about 4, interrupted in 

 disc, rising from pairs of orange dots on costa ; dorsal half between 

 these and tornus marbled and spotted with light brown ; a curved 

 blue-leaden-metallic line from beyond middle of costa to tornus, 

 and several orange dots on costa above it ; a light ochreous-yellow 

 submarginal streak from costa reaching half across wing, nearly 

 preceded by a somcAvhat shorter blue-leaden-metallic streak, and 

 edged posteriorly by a longer one reaching beyond its extremity : 

 cilia blue-violet-grey, base mixed with fulvous, with a bl'jckish 

 subbasal line. Hindwings deep orange ; dorsal half tinged with 

 pale brownish and strewn with very fine black transverse striguhe ; 

 an irregular black streak along lower portion of termen, marked 

 with about seven small bright silvery -metallic spots; a silvery- 

 metallic dot surrounded with' black towards termen in middle, and 

 an upwards-directed violet-leadeu-metallic mark from middle of 

 termen ; a dark fuscous apical fascia, divided by an orange streak 

 sometimes nearly obsolete : cilia violet-grey, with blackish sub- 

 basal line, becoming pale ochreous on lower part of termen and 

 whitish on doi'sum. 



EiUTistt GtriANA, Bartica, in February (Parish) ; Dutch Guiana, 

 Paramaribo, in July ; two specimens. Very similar to cjemmi- 

 sj/arsana, but differs by considerably larger size, peculiar strigula- 

 tion of dorsal half of hindwings, and long terminal metallic line of 

 forewings (in gemmisiKirsana shorter than the yellow streak). 



Hilarographa hexapeda, n. sp. 



$ . 15 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous more or less mixed with pale 

 yellowish. Palpi whitish, Avith violet iridescence. Tliorax dark 

 fuscous with four pale ochreous stripes. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings subtriangular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, 

 termen somewhat obliquely rounded, sinuate beneath apex ; 7 and 

 S separate ; orange, deep reddish-orange or brownish-orange 

 towards posterior half of costa, briglit reddish-orange towards 

 termen ; a deep blue-purple basal patch occupying ^ of wing, edge 

 acutely angulated above middle, marked with a longitudinal pale 

 ochreous-orange streak from base nearly to angle, and margined 

 posteriorly by pale orange purple-edged streaks not quite meeting 

 at angle ; dorsal half from this to tornus crossed by about seven 



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