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Hypercallia chionopis, n. sp. 



6 $. 13-14 mm. Head and thorax yellow irregularly marked 

 •with crimsoTi-fiiscous. Palpi pale yellowish siiffusedly irrorated 

 with crimson-fuscous, terminal joint half second, roughened with 

 scales. Abdomen rather dark grey. Forewings suboblong, costa 

 strongly arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat 

 oblique ; 9 separate ; pale yellow, coarsely and irregularly reti- 

 culated with crimson ; costa with about six short oblique streaks 

 of dark fuscous suffusion ; discal stigmata small, round, white, 

 surrounded with crimson ; a slender fascia of dark fuscous suffusion 

 from middle of costa behind first discal stigma to dorsum before 

 middle, where it is expanded ; a curved streak of dark fuscous 

 suffusion edged with crimson running near posterior part of costa 

 and termen : cilia yellow, base mixed with crimson, at apex with 

 a crimson bar, towards tornus suffused with grey. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey, with faint crimson tinge ; cilia grey-whitish, 

 suffused with grey towards base. 



French Guiana, 8t. Jean, R. Maroni ; four specimens. 



Filinota lamprocosma, n. sp. 



c? . 19-20 mm. Head white, crown tinged with yellowish, with 

 a crimson bar behind antenna?. Palpi white, apex of second joint 

 crimson-pink, terminal joint tinged with yellowish. Thorax 

 crimson, variably striped with dark metallic-leaden, on shoulders 

 and posteriorly spotted with pale yellowish. Abdomen white. 

 Posterior legs white, with a small dark grey spot at apex of tibiae. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly gently, poste- 

 riorly slightly arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique ; 

 3 separate, 4 and 5 stalked, 9 and 10 closely approximated; 

 crimson, partially marked with dark grey suffusion between some 

 of the veins, or (in one specimen) almost wholly suffused with 

 dark ashy-grey, veins towards costa marked with fine pale yellowish 

 lines, lower margin of cell marked with an interrupted pale 

 yellowish line ; a yellow spot on dorsum at |, and three others 

 above it, all obsolete in the grey specimen ; narrow somioval 

 yellow blotches on costa before and beyond middle, and an irre- 

 gular yellow streak running round apex and upper part of termen ; 

 violet-leaden-metallic subcostal streaks in the intervals between 

 these and on basal fourth ; a violet-leaden-metallic streak above 

 middle from base to apex, interrupted at i and in middle ; three 

 violet-leaden-metallic raised tufts in a curved transverse series 

 before middle of disc, and one in disc beyond middle: cilia yellow, 

 towards tornus grey, sometimes partly mixed with crimson. Hind- 

 wings w'litish, in the grey specimen suffused with pale grey on 

 apical half ; cilia whitish. 



French Guiana, E,. Maroni ; three specimens. Varies con- 

 siderably, but could be known by the peculiar neural characters, 

 which differ specifically in all the members of this genus. 



