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long, recurved, with oppressed scales, terminal joint as long as 

 second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to 

 tongue. Posterior tibiaj clothed with rough hairs. Forewings 

 with 1 h furcate, 2 from near angle, 7 to apex, 8 and 9 out of 7, 

 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, ovate, cilia g ; 3 and 4 connate, 

 5 parallel, transverse vein outwardly oblique from 4 to 6, inwardly 

 oblique to 7, 6 and 7 rather approximated towards base. 

 Type capsaria Meyr. Allied to MacMmia. 



Lysigrapha thermoxantha, n. sp, 



J . 13 mm. Head dull crimson-pink suffused on crown with 

 dark fuscous. (Palpi broken.) Antennal dilations 2.7. Thorax 

 deep yellow, anterior margin dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark 

 fuscous, anal tuft rosy-yellowish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated, costa gently arched, more strongly posteriorly, apex 

 obtuse, termen nearly straight, little oblique ; deep yellow, costa 

 rosy-tinged ; stigmata dark purplish-fuscous, plical rather obliquely 

 beyond first discal ; an undefined transverse purplish shade 

 traversing first discal and plical stigmata, not reaching margins; 

 a slender purplish streak sprinkled with dark fuscous round apical 

 ])art of costa and upper part of termen : cilia purplish with dark 

 fuscous line, towards tornus yellowish (tips injured). Hindwings 

 deep yellow suffused with rosy ; cilia rosy-yellowish. 



I'EKtr, Pacaya, in January {Moimsey) ; one specimen. 



Lysigrapha capsaria, n. sp. ^ 



S. 18 mm. Head yellow-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-yellowish 

 mixed with crimson. Antennal ciliations 2|. Thorax yellow- 

 ochreous, shoulders suftused with crimson-fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, narrowed at 

 base, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, rather strongly bent 

 beyond middle, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, little oblique ; 

 light yellow-ochreous ; markings dull crimson-pink sufifusedly 

 irrorated M'ith purplish-fuscous ; three acute-triangular costal 

 spots, first basal, nearly reaching dorsum, second antemedian, 

 reaching half across wing, connected with first on costal edge, 

 third at |, smaller, its apex emitting a faint interrupted curved 

 rosy line running to |^ of dorsum ; stigmata rosy, first discal 

 indicated by apex of second costal spot, plical very small, obliquely 

 beyond it, second discal transverse-linear ; a slender attenuated 

 streak running from third costal spot along posterior part of costa 

 and termen to tornus : cilia yellow-whitish, tinged with brownish- 

 rosy. Hindwings and cilia whitish-yellowish. 



British Guiana, Georgetown, in April (Parish) ; one specimen. 



