82 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Descriptions of 



anteriorly. Antennae dark fuscous, in (J apical fourth white. 

 Thorax dark fuscous, patagia dark metallic-blue. Forewings 

 narrow at base, posteriorly rather dilated, costa faintly sinuate, 

 apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; bronzy- blacldsh ; a small 

 dark metallic-blue spot at base; a white dot on fold at ^ of whig, 

 one beneath costa before middle, one in disc beyond middle and short 

 opposite transverse marks from costa and dorsum near bej'ond this : 

 cilia dark fuscous, a white patch occupying apex and upper part of 

 termen. Hindwings dark bronzy-fuscous; cilia dark fuscous, a 

 white apical spot. Both sexes beneath with transverse white mark 

 in disc of fore\vings, and rather oblique white fascia from costa of 

 hindwings beyond middle not reachmg termen. 



Beazil, Para, E. Trombetas, Parintius; Peru, Iquitos; 

 from May to October, five specimens. Shorter- winged tlian 

 stellifereUa, the two posterior white marks of forewings 

 transverse and much nearer the discal dot (thongh variable 

 in position in stellifereUa), and white fascia of hindwings 

 beneath present in both sexes. 



Compsolechia chelidonia, n. sp. 



(J. 17 mm. Head glossy deep indigo-blue, face whitish- blue-grey, 

 supraorbital scales pale yellow-cchreous. Palpi whitish-blue-grey, 

 terminal joint pale yellowish, anteriorly dark grey. Thorax dark 

 grey, posterior extremity mdigo-blackish. Forewings rather 

 narrow, costa faintly sinuate, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely 

 rounded; dark purple- fuscous, uregularly irrorated whitish; a 

 triangular blackish blotch extending on costa from g- to f , apex 

 reaching fold; a thick blackish streak from disc beyond middle to 

 apex, above suffused and with two slender interneural streaks, 

 beneath on posterior half edged with ochreous-whitish suffusion 

 extending to termen and produced slenderly along lower part of 

 termen, area between anterior half and dorsum free from whitish 

 irroration : cilia dark slaty-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous ; a 

 long dark grey erectUe hairjaencil lymg in submedian fold; cilia 

 pale grey, a darker subbasal shade. 



Brazil, Obidos, in August; one specimen. Nearest 

 cassidata. 



Compsolechia hemileucas, n. sp. 



i^$. 14-15 mm. Head glossy deep indigo-blue, face whitish, 

 suj)raorbital scales ochreous-yellow. Palpi grey-whitish, terminal 

 joint anteriorly dark grey. Antennae dark grey. Thorax dark 



