222 Mr. W. Scliaus on 



sliorjitly outcurveJ and wavy from costa to vein 4, and out- 

 wardly shaded with dull dark brown ; an irregular and 

 indistinct dark subterminal sliade with lighter grey points 

 between the veins; a terminal black line ; cilia black, tipped 

 with white near apex and from vein 3 to tornus, and shaded 

 with ochreous brown basally above tornus. Hind wings 

 dark steel-grey ; a black medial line followed by a broad 

 light brown space, not reaching inner margin and containing 

 a black point on discocellular behind; a straight postmedial 

 line, paler steel-grey edged on either side with dark brown ; 

 a terminal black line; base of cilia ochreous brown, followed 

 by fuscous and tipped with whitish. Wings below whitish, 

 crossed by numerous black strise, and wavy medial and post- 

 medial black lines, the disc of fore wings strongly shaded 

 with brown ; a black shade connecting the lines below cell, 

 and the terminal area below apex shaded with black; bind 

 wings with the outer margin broadly black, on which are 

 some subterminal pale spots. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Hub. La Florida. 



Thermesia ? suhdentataj sp. n. 



Palpi orange, shaded with fuscous brown laterally; frons 

 reddish irrorated with lilacine ; vertex and collar velvety 

 brown-black; thorax greyish brown irrorated with lilacine ; 

 abdomen dark grey. Fore wings yellowish buff striated 

 with dark grey ; a dark shade at base irrorated with lilacine, 

 expanding below cell and there limited by an inwardly 

 oblique fuscous line, which is outbent below submedian ; an 

 antemedial dark brown line on costa ; a medial irregular 

 transverse olive-brown shade preceded by some reddish 

 irrorations in and below cell ; reniform much constricted 

 anteriorly, its edge preceded by a velvety brown-black line ; 

 postmedial dark olive-brown, outbent from costa, followed 

 by a lilacine line from vein 8, and another brownish line 

 from vein 6, from which point it is inwardly oblique and 

 slightly sinuous; a broad lilacine shade follows from vein 4 

 to inner margin ; the terminal area more heavily striated, 

 and an irregular row of black subterminal spots ; base of 

 cilia reddish brown. Hind wings grey-brown tinged with 

 olive ; a postmedial black line, expanding on inner margin 

 and there geminate ; cilia dark brown, with a reddish line at 

 base, and tipped with lilacine scales. Fore wings below 

 dull crieyish brown, the costa shaded with ochreous ; a white 

 point on discocellular closely followed by a dentate fuscous 



