XYLORYCTIDJS. 487 



Agriophara caecata, n. sp. 



c? . 24 mm. Head blackish-fuscous, face fuscous. Palpi dark 

 fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1|. Thorax fuscous, with a blackish bar 

 on anterior margin, crest light green anteriorly. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Torewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, vertical ; violet- 

 fuscous ; several small light dull greenish spots traversing wing 

 before middle, one representing plical stigma larger ; a dark violet- 

 fuscous triangular apical patch, its edge running from beyond 

 middle of costa to tornus, slightly convex, marked towards termen 

 in middle with a round blackish blotch resting on its anterior edge, 

 suffused posteriorly but finely whitish-edged anteriorly : cilia 

 fuscous, on costa with two or three ochreous-whitish dots. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Fkench Glian\, U. Maroni ; one specimen. 



Agriophara scutellata, n, sp. 



(S . 27-28 mm. Head brown, face suffused with whitish- 

 ochreous, crown centrally mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi dark 

 brown sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, base and subapical ring of 

 terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax light 

 violet-fuscous irregularly mixed with light dull green, anterior 

 margin dark brown, dorsally forming a quadrate blotch of which 

 anterior half is blackish-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft 

 greyish -ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly some- 

 what dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly 

 rounded, little oblique ; 8 to apex ; rather light fuscous, costal 

 half suffused with dark fuscoiJs, irregularly and suffusedly mixed 

 with dull olive-green, more largely on dorsal half ; a dorsal patch 

 of dark fuscous suffusion at ^ ; plical and second discal stigmata 

 raised, transverse, dark fuscous, edged anteriorly with olive-green ; 

 an ochreous-whitish blotch partly tinged with brown resting on 

 upper part of termen, marked near its anterior edge with a dark 

 brown transverse spot : cilia brownish, tips darker, basal third 

 dark fuscous narrowly barred with whitish. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with interrupted grey subbasal 

 line. 



Trench Guiana, E. Maroni ; two specimens. 



Agriophara hemichlora, n. sp. 



c? 26-28 mm., 5 38 mm. Head and palpi dark brown. 

 Antennal ciliations of cJ 2. Thorax dull light green, anterior 

 margin dark brown. Abdomen rather dark grey, anal tuft of J 

 greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, slightly dilated 

 posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, 

 little oblique; 8 to apex; dark brosvn, partially suffused with 

 purplish-fuscous, and irregularly marked with dull light green, 

 dorsal half almost wholly dull light green ; plical and second discal 

 stigmata raised, transverse-linear, blackish ; a subterminal line 



