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tornus; a cloudy dark fuscous spot on apex and upper part of 

 termen : cilia white, round apex and upper part of teroien suffused 

 with grey. Hindwitigs ochreousgrej'-whitish ; costa expanded from 

 base to |, with broad projection of long rough hairscales sutfused 

 wilh grey beneatf), and long whitish subcostal hairpencil lying in 

 an ochreous groove from base concealed beneath forewings ; cilia 

 whitish. 



French Guiana, St. Jean, R. Maroni, in July; three specimens. 

 Differs from all others in the peculiar deep abrupt sin.iation of costa 

 of forewings. 



Antaeotricha oxycentra, n. sp. 



S . 16 mm. Head dark purple-grey, face suffused with whitish. 

 Palpi white, second joint with dark fuscous '■'reak above on basal 

 half and suffused baud towards apex, termim ioint suffused with 

 dark fuscous except tip. Antennal ciliations''*S. Thorax dark 

 bluish-fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 

 termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; whitish, slightly ochreous- 

 tinged in disc ; an elongate dark purple-grey blotch marked with 

 black and oehreous-brown along basal third of dorsum, reaching 

 costa at base ; a suffused grey mark on dorsum just beyond this ; 

 an irregularly dentate somewhat interrupted dark grey line from ^ 

 of costa to beyond middle of dorsum ; two triangular black dots 

 transversely placed on end of cell, and a triangular black spot on 

 dorsum beneath these, its apex somewhat produced and nearly 

 touching the lower; a suffused violet-grey mark on costa above 

 these dots, and a bar in disc beyond them : an indistinct violet- 

 grey line from 4 of costa to tornus, somewhat sinuate near costa ; 

 an indistinct violet-grey mark composed of four small confluent 

 spots just before apex and upper part of termen, leaving a waved, 

 white terminal line : cilia white, round apex and upper part of 

 termen suffused with violet-fuscous. Hindwings grey, thinly 

 scaled towards base ; costa expanded from base to |, with broad 

 projection of long rough hairscales suffused with dark grey beneath, 

 and long whitish subcostal hairpencil from base lying beneath fore- 

 wings ; cilia pale grey, round apex white. Forewings beneath 

 with cell suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish, clothed with 

 whitish hairs towards upper margin, vein 10 yellowish on basal 

 half. 



French Guiana, St. Jean, R. Maroni, in July ; two specimens. 



Antaeotricha nitrota, n. sp. 



cJ , 22 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous. Palpi fuscous, ter- 

 minal joint suffused with whitish posteiiorly. Antennal ciliations 

 1|. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, hardly oblique ; 

 white ; a rather dark fuscous basal blotch, its edge running from | 

 of costa to 5 of dorsum, concave beneath costa ; a transverse patch 



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