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curved parallel greyish discal lines ; base whitish; seconda- 

 ries sordid- whitish, with cupreous reflections; a black dis- 

 cocellular spot ; a curved discal line and the outer border 

 greyish-brown ; a sulimai-ginal dusky stripe limiting the 

 border ; body crcaray-white : expanse of wings 1 inch 

 1 line. 



Near Xibaru, Rio Negro, 25th June, 1874. 



Apparently allied to PhalcBiia strintaria of Cramer, 

 AVTongly referred, by M. Guenee, to Palindia. 



134. Capnodes raundicola. 



Cupnodes mundicola, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iil. 

 p. 1075 (1865). 



Fuliginous-brown ; wings crossed by two black -edged 

 flesh-coloured lines, zigzag towards costa of primaries ; 

 discoidal spots small and black ; a black-edged zigzag 

 pinky-whitish marginal line, and a submarginal series of 

 black-edged spots of the same colour ; a dusky transverse 

 line between the two flesh-coloured lines, externally (and 

 especially upon the secondaries) edged Avith whitish ; outer 

 border irregularly pale ; abdomen whitish at base ; under- 

 surface paler, the outer borders very pale, limited internally 

 by a dusky band ; a central dusky line ; discocellular 

 dusky : expanse of Avings 1 inch 4 lines. 



$ . Obydos, 8th ]\Iarch ; 2 . Mouth of Parana mirina de 

 Uraria, 5th June, 1874. 



Only a single pair obtained ; the male is rather darker 

 than the female : C. linuln seems to be allied to this 

 species, which (excepting in its broader primaries and less 

 strongly-pectinated antennae) greatly resembles the genus 

 Bithiasu. Walker's description is so incomplete that I 

 have had some difliculty in identifying this species. 



Subgenus* Arugisa, Walker. 



135. Capnodes turbata, n. sp. 



Primaries slaty-grey, Avitli a faint violaceous shot ; a 

 curved and almost semicircular broad belt (covering the 



* I disapprove of making subgenera, but when made I prefer to adopt 

 rather than ignore them. Aniglsa is structurally like Cajmodes, but 

 differs somewhat in coluratiun. 



