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a fine whitish transverse line to dorsum before tornus, apical fifth 

 of wing beyond these markmgs forming a coppery-red blotch with 

 violet gloss : cilia grey, a white apical patch, Hindwings dark 

 fuscous; cilia grey, a dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



Brazil, Obidos, Parintins, in September and October; 

 five specimens. 



Zalithia ioploca, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head whitish-grey, face whitish. Palpi whitish- 

 violet, terminal jomt longer than second, violet-grey anteriorly. 

 Thorax violet-grey. Forewings rather narrow, costa faintly sinuate 

 beyond middle, apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique; 

 violet-grey, on costal half anteriorly suffused sky-blue, extreme 

 costal edge whitish; subcostal, median, and plical orange lines 

 from base to near middle, and a line from base of median to apex 

 of subcostal; these terminated by an angulated dark grey bar in 

 middle of disc, edged orange and pale ochreous suffusion ; posterior 

 area from near beyond this light ochreous suffused orange in disc, 

 towards dorsum anteriorly forming streaks on veins and tinged 

 crimson, including a dark fei-ruginous dot on end of cell, two short 

 oblique dark grey marks from costa before and beyond | and one 

 just above apex, a deep ferruginous transverse line at f edged 

 anteriorly by v/hite marks below costa and below middle, and 

 limiting a deep ferruginous blotch extending along termen, becoming 

 purplish towards its middle (cilia imperfect). Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal shade. 



Brazil, Parintins, in October; one specimen. 



Helcystogramma chalyburga, n. sp. 



9. 13 mm. Head, thorax fuscous. Palpi pale brownish- 

 ochreous, anterior edge of terminal joint ochreous- whitish finely 

 edged blackish. Forewings elongate, apex rounded- obtuse, termen 

 rounded, little oblique; brown; tlu'ee shining dark blue-grey 

 fasciae finely edged blackish, first basal, occupying J of wing, 

 second moderate, rather irregular, from middle of costa to beyond 

 middle of dorsum, third subterminal, moderate, pointed beneath 

 and not quite reaching dorsum, costal end marked anteriorly with 

 a small white spot ; dorsum between fasciae suffused dark fuscous ; 

 terminal area dark fuscous, a terminal series of minute blue-grey 

 dots : cilia grey, a darker basal shade. Hindwings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia whitish, a dark grey basal shade. 



Brazil, Para, in Jime; two specimens. 



