548 EXOTIC MICBOLEPIDOPTEKA. 



Atelosticha erasicosma, n. sp. 



J, 10-11 mm. Head pale yellowish, crown more or less mixed 

 with crimson, sides of crown with a crimson anterior spot and 

 blackish posterior dot. Palpi crimson, terminal joint yellow 

 towards apex anteriorly. Antennal ciliations 2|. Thorax yellow 

 spotted with crimson. Abdomen light crimson-pink, aual tuft 

 whitish-oclireous. Forewiugs elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, 

 costa anteriorly slightly, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen rounded, rather oblique ; bright deep yellow ; a strong 

 dark fuscous costal streak from base to |, attenuated posteriorly, 

 thence a strong deep crimson streak, including a praemarginal 

 series of dark fuscous dots, runs round rest of costa and termen ; 

 irregular partly incomplete subcostal, median, subdorsal, and dorsal 

 crimson streaks from base to about -|, and a small supramedian 

 crimson spot in middle ; stigmata rather large, dark fuscous, hrst 

 discal transverse, plical slightly beyond first discal, second discal 

 transverse, almost joined by a dark fuscous bar from costal streak ; 

 an irregular curved transverse crimson streak beyond cell crossing 

 these markings, and a curved dentate transverse crimson streak 

 between this and termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, basal third dark 

 fuscous, on tornus grey. Hindwings light rose-pink ; cilia whitish, 

 basal half light pink. 



French Guiana, E,. Maroni ; two specimens. 



Atelosticlia orthophragma, n. sp. 



cJ 5 • 12-13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, crown posteriorly 

 suffused with grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, with grey lateral and 

 rose-pink posterior stripes except towards apex of joints. Antennal 

 ciliations of S 2|. Thorax pale ochreous-yellowish, with dark 

 fuscous bar behind anterior margin edged irregularly with crimson 

 posteriorly, and two sometimes connected crimson marks at posterior 

 extremity. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, pos- 

 teriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 

 slightly rounded, rather oblique ; light ochreous-yellow ; a thick 

 dark fuscous-grey streak along costa from base to near apex, edged 

 with some crimson scales beneath, costal edge whitish from base 

 to beyond middle ; a very short thick dark fuscous-grey streak 

 from base close beneath this, edged with crimson beneath ; a 

 slender irregular crimson streak along fold from base to middle of 

 wing, a similar streak along basal third of dorsum, and some slight 

 irregular crimson marking between tliese ; first discal stigma 

 crimson ; a spot of dark fuscous-grey suffusion on dorsum at 1, 

 whence an irregular crimson streak runs to middle of postmedian 

 fascia ; a slender irregular dark fuscous-grey fascia edged with 

 crimson running from near costal streak beyond middle to dorsum 

 before tornus ; some irregular crimson marking along or near 

 dorsum on posterior half ; an irregular somewhat interrupted 

 curved crimson line from | of costa to lower extremity of post- 

 median fascia ; a dark fuscous marginal line suffused with crimson 



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