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Forewings elongate, ccsta gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 

 termen rounded, somewhat oblique; rather dark violet-ashy-grey; 

 an irregular transverse blackish blotch in disc before middle, some- 

 times divided into two, upper half somewhat mixed brown, lower 

 half occupied except lateral margins by a brownish-ochreous spot; 

 two blackish dots transversely placed on end of cell, sometimes some 

 pale yellow ish scales between these : cilia grey. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey; cilia grey. 



Brazil, TefJe, in January ; French Guiana, R. Maroni ; 

 two specimens. 



Pachysaris contrila, n. sp. 



{^.19 mm. Head light grey, sidetufts roughly' raised, whitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi dark purple-grey, expanded hairs very dense, 

 light grey. Thorax dark iron-grey. Forewings elongate, costa 

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

 dark iron-grey; stigmata small, dark fuscous, plical beneath first 

 discal, an additional dot beneath second discal : cilia dark grey. 

 Hindwings rather light grey, scales farinose, a darker grey streak 

 along upper part of termen; a short basal pecten of whitish- 

 ochreous scales on 16, and slight one on lower margin of cell ; cilia 

 grey. 



Brazil, Para, in July; British Guiana, Mallali, in 

 March; two specimens. 



Prophoraula, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales; ocelli small, posterior; tongue 

 develoj)ed. Antennae |, in ^ moderately ciliated, basal joint 

 elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi extremely long, straight, 

 porrected, second joint extremely long, rough-scaled above through- 

 out with scales longer towards base, and beneath on posterior half 

 Avith rough projecting scales becoming longer towards apex, ter- 

 minal joint very short, filiform, pointed, almost concealed in scales 

 of second. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae rough- 

 haired above and beneath. Forewings lb furcate, 2 and 3 stalked 

 from angle, 7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 from beyond middle. 

 Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, termen slightly sinuate, cilia |; 3 and 

 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 short-stalked. 



Probably a development of Noeza, 



