482 EXOTIC JIICROLEPIDOPXERA. 



FALCULINA Zell. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts roughly spreading ; ocelli 

 present ; tongue developed. Antennae 5, in S moderately ciliated, 

 basal joint moderate, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi long, 

 recurved, second joint reaching base of antennae, thickened with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second or shorter, 

 moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed 

 to tongue. Anterior tibiae and tarsi short, somewhat thickened 

 with scales ; posterior tibia) clothed with rougli projecting scales 

 above and beneath. Forewings with apex falcate ; 1 6 furcate, 

 2 from near angle, 3-5 approximated, 7 to terraen, 7 and 8 

 approximated towards base or seldom stalked (?), 11 from before 

 midtlle. Hindwings over 1, trapezoidal-ovate, cilia ^ ; 3 and 4 

 connate, 5 nearly approximated at base, 6 and 7 closely approxi- 

 m\ated towards base ; in c? a streak of rough moditied scales along 

 Iowt\r margin of cell. 



In fflqy examples of ochr'icostata veins 7 and 8 of the forewings 

 are separtc'fe, as in the following species ; Zeller describes them as 

 stalked, but he had only a single specimen, and if correct, it may 

 have been an aJ)normalit3'. ^ 



Falculina lepidota, n. sp. 



S 28-29 mm., 5 3\0 ram. Head ochreous-whitish, crown 

 posteriorly tinged with gj-eyish-ochreous, sides of face yellow- 

 ochreous. Palpi whitish, socond joint externally suffused with 

 yellow-ochreous. Thorax pnle ochreous, more or less spotted 

 dorsally with blackish suffusion. Abdomen in rj dark grey, anal 

 tuft pale ochreous, in 2 greyish^ Forewings elongate, somewhat 

 dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex prominent, pointed, 

 more so in 5 , termen concave, rather oblique ; light brownish, 

 paler or suffused with pale greyish-oc'Jireous towards base of costa; 

 costal edge ferruginous or browuish-ochreous ; cell and anterior 

 half of dorsal area strewn with smal2 cloudy suffused blackish 

 spots; a series of indistinct blackish minfute striguhe or dots from 

 above end of cell towards middle of term'en, thence angulated and 

 incurved to dorsum before tonnis ; a /terminal series of cloudy 

 blackish dots : cilia brownish, on ternien with tips dark brown. - 

 Hindwings in S dark fuscous, modified scales of lower margin of 

 cell and an area beneath this lighter, fuscous, apical edge tinged 

 with ochreous, in $ ochreous-yellow, basal half pale grey ; cilia 

 in S greyish-ochreous, paler towards toruus, in § whitish- 

 ochreous. 



French Guiana, R. Maroni ; four specimens. The species of 

 this genus (which have an aspect of reptilian mimicry) can be 

 distinguished by the difference in form of forewings and colour of 

 hindwings. 



Falculina ocliricostata Zell. 



S . 27-29 mm. Forewings with costa moderately arched as in 5 , 



