'Sir. Butler's tlescriptums of Cryptolechia. 191 



20. Cryptolechia alligans. ii. sp. 



Primaries above rather pale browu, with a hlac ,:j;1oss : coital 

 and outer margins narrowly golden-bronze colour ; inner margin 

 dark brown ; a blackish dot at the end of the cell ; secondaries 

 shining testaceous, greyish towards the base ; body grey, the 

 head and jii'othorax sordid testaceous, below creamy-whitish, 

 anal segments reddish ; wings below pale shining fawn colour, 

 costa of primaries ochreous. Expanse of wings 1 6 mm. 



West bank of Rio Negro, 14th and KJth June, 4th of July ; 

 Gaviao, Rio Jurua, 6th and 10th November, 



A common little species, with much depressed fi-inges to the 

 wings, so that in some lights they appear almost black, 



21. Cruptoh'chid j)cccati.s. n. sp. 



Primaries above pale reddish-brown, with a lilac gloss : the 

 triangular costal spots at equal distances, the innermost smallest, 

 and tAvo unequal spots, one above the other, across the cell, 

 black ; an obhque line uniting the innermost costal spot, the 

 discoidal spots and the centre of inner margin, brown ; a slightly 

 curved brown transverse discal line ; a dot on discocellular and 

 a marginal series, blackish ; secondaries pale stramineous, 

 liecoming reddish at apex ; body rosy-brownish, palpi whitish- 

 black at the base, abdomen whitish ; bodj^ below Avhite : Avings 

 below pale stramineous, tinted externally with rose-red. Ex- 

 panse of wings 18 mm, 



Santarem, Rio Jutahi, 1st February, IfSTo. 



22. Criiptolecltia Tra'ilu, n, sp. 



Primaries greyish -brown, shining; the basal two-thirds almost 

 covered by large irregular pale yellow carmine-bordered spots, 

 two of which cross the cell, and three of which form a triangle 

 below it ; disc pale yellow, boimded on each side and intersected 

 through the centre by crenulated carmine lines ; costal margin, 

 fringe and inner margin, carmine ; secondaries creamy white, 

 fringe rose-red, becoming yellowish towards anal angle ; pri- 

 maries below rosy, the costa Avhitish ; secondaries creamy-white, 

 tinted externally with rose colour. Expanse of wings 20 mm. 



Forest before Arimanahy, 3rd January. 



Allied to C. incensatclla and to C. Jhrvida of Zeller. 



