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tcrmen, with a small suffused spot before apex : cilia -white. 

 Hindwiugs pale grey, whitish-tinged towards base, darker towards 

 apex, extreme apex whitish marked with dark fuscous on margin ; 

 costa slightly expanded on basal | and roughened ^ith white 

 scales, with long grey-wlutish subcostal hairpencil from base lying 

 beneath forewings ; cilia white. 



French Guiana, St. Jean, 11. Maroni, in July ; one specimen. 



Antaeotriclia xylocosma, n. sp. 



c? . 27 mm. Head light glossy grey, face suffused with whitish. 

 Palpi grey. Antennal ciliations under 1. Thorax grey. Abdo- 

 men dark grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moder- 

 ately arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, nearly vertical ; dark 

 fuscous, slightly sprinkled with whitish, beneath costa forming 

 several small very indistinct cloudy whitish spots ; a pale brownish- 

 ochreous curved transverse-linear mark beneath costa at 4- ; discal 

 stigmata cloudy, blackish, each with an indistinct brownish- 

 ochreous dot acljacent beneath : cilia grey, darker towards base. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; costa expanded from base to |^, with 

 long rough projecting scales suffused with brown beneath, and long 

 whitish subcostal hairpencil from base lying beneath forewings; 

 cilia grey, basal third dark fuscous. 



FiiENCH Guiana, 11. Maroni ; one specimen. 



Antaeoti'icha pythonaea, n. sp. 



(S . 22 mm. Head and thorax prismatic violet-grey, face 

 white. Palpi violet-grey, second joint with darker streak above 

 towards base, terminal joint dark violet-grey with whitish apex. 

 Antennal ciliations 1 ^. Abdomen dark indigo-grey, sides of ventral 

 surface white, sides of anal tuft ochreous-yellow. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen 

 rounded, hardly oblique ; deep shining bronze-green, with suffused 

 light indigo-bluish markings, consisting of irregular suffusion in 

 basal and median portions of discal and dorsal areas, a transverse 

 streak between these rising from a flattened-triangular ochreous- 

 white spot on costa before middle, and a transverse streak from 

 beneath costa at | to tornus ; a leaden-grey line round apex and 

 termen : cilia leaden-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous ; costa rather 

 expanded from base to |, with broad projection of ochreous-whitish 

 scales before middle, and long whitish subcostal hairpencil from 

 base lying beneath forewings ; cilia grey, basal third dark fuscous. 



French Guiana, R. Maroni ; one specimen. Intermediate 

 between malacJiita and Zelleri ; it would seem likely that fumi- 

 pennis Busck is also an allied species, but the absence of sex and 

 structural indications and the statement that it is allied to phylo- 

 ptera Busck, which appears to be an Agriopliara, makes it 

 doubtful. 



Antaeotriclia compsographa, n. sp. 



J . 19-20 mm. Head fuscous, lower part of face white, crown 



