collected in Chili. 343 



beyond the middle of their inner margins by an externally 

 diffused pale violet stripe, dotted upon the veins with 

 red-brown ; apical fourth of the secondaries also slightly 

 tinted with pearly violaceous ; primaries with a black 

 dot at the end of the ceil, and a second at the basal 

 third of the submedian vein ; costal margin and antennae 

 rusty orange ; body slightly cream-coloured ; under sur- 

 face sienna-red ; wings crossed by a greyish violet stripe, 

 and flecked towards the external border with the same 

 colour ; primaries with a bright yellow costal streak ; 

 base of costal margin red; internal border creamy white; 

 secondaries with the abdominal area up to the median 

 vein gamboge-yellow, but divided by the violet-grey stripe 

 and with sienna-red external border ; venter and legs 

 flesh-tinted. Expanse of wings, 38 mm. 



" Valdivia, from Eeed's collection." — T. E. 



Syncirsodes, n. g. 



Aspect of Cirsodes ; outline of wings as in Apicia, the 

 outer margins being rounded, with scarcely perceptible 

 subangulation at the extremity of the third median 

 branch on all the wings ; body unusually slender, the 

 antennae filiform ; legs rather stout, 



6. Syncirsodes straminea, n. s. 



Pale straw-yellow ; the thorax, base of abdomen, and 

 basal area of the wings sprinkled with a few black scales ; 

 primaries crossed by two ill-defined ochraceous stripes, 

 oblique and sub-parallel, the first across the basal third, 

 the second, which is bounded internally by a deeper- 

 coloured line, running from apex to just beyond the 

 middle of inner margin ; a greyish subapical dash upon 

 the oblique line ; secondaries whitish on the costal and 

 basal areas, crossed beyond the middle by two very 

 ill-defined subparallel stramineous stripes a little deeper 

 than the ground colour, the inner one bounded internally 

 by an indistinct ochraceous line, straight, abbreviated, 

 not reaching the costal margin, the outer one slightly 

 undulated ; head white, antennae pearly whitish ; wings 

 below sericeous straw-yellow, more densely mottled with 

 blackish scales towards the base than on the upper 

 surface ; stripes as above, but greyish, the outer one of 

 the primaries formed of two closely approximated greyish 



