Species of VyviiVidx. 13 



wliite ; palpi black, Avliitc in front except at tips ; shoulders 

 with black bars with some fulvous above; fore tibite banded 

 with black. Fore wing white tinged with ochreous yellow 

 and faintly irrorated with grey, the costa pure white, except 

 at base Avhicli is fulvous ; a faint oblique grey anteniedial 

 line; a slight white discoidal striga ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, grey, oblique from vein 8 to diseal fold, bent 

 outwards from vein 5 to below 3, then retracted to below 

 angle of cell and oblique and sinuous to inner margin. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with ochreous and irrorated 

 with grey ; a faint grey discoidal striga; postmedial lino 

 indistinct, grey, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and again exeurved. 



Hab. MEi'ico, Cuernavaca (H. H.Smith), 1 (^ type; Gua- 

 temala, San Geronimo {Champion) , 1 $ , Guatemala City 

 (Rodrjf/iiez), 1 ? ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. {Under woud), 



1 S > Ii'azu {Rogers), 1 S; Panama, Chiriqui {Chamjnon), 



2 ? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exjj. 40-48 ram. 



(73 a) Si/Iepia pheeophlebalis, sp. n. 



^. White; palpi, tegulae, and pi'othorax tinged with 

 orange ; fore tibise and tarsi tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing with rather diffused brown streaks on the veins, stronger 

 on subcostal and median nervures and veins 8^ 7, 4, 1. Hind 

 Ming with faint brown streaks on median nervure and veins 5 

 to 1. Underside of fore wing with the costal area and termeu 

 tinged with fuscous, a slight discoidal bar ; hind wing with 

 the ternien narrowly fuscous. 



Hab. Peru, Ptio Colorado {IVatkins db TomUnson), 1 ^ 

 type. Exp. 34 mm. 



(75 b) Sylepta atrisquamaiis, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white; palpi witli 

 black band at base of second joint and stieak above ; frons 

 with black bar above ; fore legs black in front except the tart-i. 

 Fore wing yellowish white ; small spots formed of aggregated 

 black scales beyond low-er angle of cell below veins .5, 4, 3. 

 Hind wing yellowish white \y\i\x an irroration of large black 

 scales in, beyond, and below end of cell. 



Hab. Germ. E. Athica, Bueni {Neave), 1 ? tvpc. Exp. 

 32 mm. 



(76 b) Sijlepta brunnescen.^, sp. n. 

 <-icolcdis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., llet. ii 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown ; pal])i 



Hedi/Iepta terricolalis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., llet. ii. p. 269 (part.), 

 nee Miischl. 



