6 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



Capua illaqueata, n. sp. 



$. 14 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellow, anterior margin 

 of thorax marked with brown. Palpi yellow-whitish, with two 

 transverse fuscous bars on second joint, and one on base of terminal. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique ; light 

 brassy-yellow sprinkled with ferruginous, partially suffused with 

 silvery- white on margins of markings ; markings lilac-brown, edged 

 with some dark brown scales ; a ferruginous-brown spot along base 

 of costa, enclosing two pale yellow strigulae on costa; a small 

 ferruginous spot on base of dorsum ; an irregular oblique fascia 

 from ^ of costa to below middle of wing, its extremity dilated and 

 truncate ; a triangular blotch on dorsum about 3 ; a large spot on 

 middle of costa and a smaller one beyond it, connected by a thick bar 

 beneath ; a small costal spot beyond this ; an irregular fascia from 

 costa before apex to tornus, including a pale yellow strigula on costa, 

 its anterior edge triangularly prominent above middle so as just to 

 touch angle of the subcostal bar and suffused here Avith ferruginous, 

 its posterior edge connected with termen below middle by a narrow 

 bar ; some small silvery-white spots along termen and tornus : cilia 

 pale yellow barred with ferruginous. Hindwings dark grey; cilia 

 greyish with darker subbasal shade. 



French Guiana, R. Maroni ; one specimen. Allied to 

 ahonitiias. 



Pseudatteria fornicata, n. sp. 



?. 30-38 mm. Head white spotted with black. Palpi nearly 6, 

 slender, black, basal joint white, second joint internally white. 

 Thorax black, posterior margin of collar, a mark on each side of 

 back, a dot in middle, and two posterior white. Abdomen black, 

 segmental margins white. Forewings suboblong, moderately 

 broad, costa strongly arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, 

 somewhat oblique; orange; dorsal edge ochreous-whitish ; a 

 moderate evenly broad ochreous-white border rumiing all round 

 costa and termen, with purple-black markings as follows, viz. a 

 basal bar, eight thick transverse spots crossing it between this and 

 i of costa, four marginal spots round apex connected anteriorly 

 by an irregular marking but first or second of these sometimes dis- 

 connected, and five semicircular marginal spots on termen, second 

 confluent with an anterior spot so as to form a bar crossing border ; 

 in one specimen a dot beneath this bar anteriorly, in the other a 

 small spot above tornal spot : cilia white, barred with purple-black 

 on markings. Hindwings copjiery-orange, dorsum narrowly suf- 



