528 Ml-. W. Scliaus on 



ring near tip. Head, collar, and thorax fuscous, tlie collar 

 faintly edged with silky buff scales. Abdomen dark or,-ey, 

 with 'some paler transverse shades. Fore wing bone-white, 

 shaded with pale olive-brown medially ; base, costal margin, 

 cell, and inner margin to bsyond middle irrorated with 

 fuscous brown, leaving a whitish antemedial line; abroad 

 black line on discocellular ; a postmedial fuscous-brown line 

 from costa to vein 5 ; outer margin broadly fuscous brown, 

 interrupted by an oblique white line from vein 5, bifurcating 

 at apex; some whitish marginal shadings above tornus.^ 

 Hind wings fuscous brown ; traces of a postmedial buff 

 shade, surmounted by a small black spot on inner margin. 

 Wings below dull fuscous brown; darker discal spots; a 

 broad pale postmedial shade ; a dark medial line on hind 

 wings. 



p]xpanse 19 mm. 



Hah. Sixola. 



Homopyralis elongata, sp, n. 



(^ . Palpi fuscous grey, the basal half of third joint buff- 

 white. Head, collar, and thorax dark greyish brown. Abdo- 

 men grey-black; a buff-white dorsal spot at base. Fore 

 wings rather long and narrow, dull dark brown, indistinctly 

 mottled with grey-buff, forming subbasal and antemedial 

 lines, the latter followed by a fine irregular black line, and 

 the space between them shaded with black ; a small fuscous 

 spot in cell and indistinct darker geminate medial line ; a 

 round black spot on discocellular ; postmedial consisting of 

 vague fuscous spots on veins, outcurved beyond cell, followed 

 by a pale shade on costa and marked by a larger spot on 

 submedian ; the subferminal sinuous, greyish, outwardly 

 edged with fuscous shades, cliiefly above and below vein 5 ; 

 terminal black spots ; cilia black, cut by pale shades at veins. 

 Hind wings dark brown ; a short, white, black-edged streak 

 at anal angle. Wings below greyish, the hind wings with 

 indistinct discal spot, outer and subterminal lines. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



IJab. Sixola; also the Guianas. 



The narrow wings and pale dorsal patch on abdomen will 

 help to distinguish this species. 



Homopyralis nireus, sp. n. 



^ . Palpi buff, ringed with fuscous brown. Head reddish 

 brown. Collar buff, irrorated with olive-brown. Thorax 

 mottled reddish brown, buff, and black. Abdomen above 



