NO. 1484. VENEZUELAN SYNTOMID MOTHS— K f.A(;E8. 547 



t'rinood with rough hair; alxiomen with tlie second and tiiird sog-nients 

 constricted, the tliird segment quite narrow at middle. Fore wing- 

 with vein 2 from near middle of cell; 3 from well before angle; 4 

 from angle: 5 from above angle; (5 from below upper angle; T. S, 9. 

 and 10, stalked; 11 from the cell near end. Hind wing with the cell 

 long, the front part being the longer; vein 2 from long before angle; 

 8 from angle; 4 absent; n from well above angle; ♦> from well ])elow 

 upper angle. 



Type. — /■*. r(na'>'/is/'f<. 



PSEUDARGYROEIDES CAURENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Head and body brown-black; palpi with the tips orange 

 in front; frons with lateral dark yellow spots; antennji? with j^ellow 

 point on front of basal joint; some hair on vertex, and streaks on neck 

 dark ^-ellow; streaks behind eyes metallic green; teguhv sprinkled 

 with dark yellow scales; mesothorax with subdorsal dark yellow 

 stripes; metathorax with patch of some metallic blue scales, and some 

 brown and dark yellow hair; patagia fringed with dark yellow, the 

 hind part with brown and dark yellow hair; pectus with large dark 

 metallic blue fasci.e and median yellowish patch; abdomen with dorsal 

 point on front of tirst segment, and dorsal spot on front of second seg- 

 ment yellow; the first segment with a few dark 3^ellow hair; the third 

 segment beneath, and the front half above, 3'ellowish, as are ventral 

 fringes on the next three segments; the third, fourth, and fifth dorsal 

 segments edged with dark yellow scales; wings yellow hyaline, the 

 veins brown-black and yellowish above, yellowish below, and the 

 margins narrowly brown-black. Fore wing with a discoidal bar; the 

 terminal band, expanded between vein -t and apex; underneath with 

 the discoidal l>ar yellowish. Hind wing with the terminal band 

 expanded slightly at apex, and the lobe on inner margin clothed with 

 black liair. 



K.rp<(nse. — 2{> mm. 



Hahltat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



Type.—OAt. No. 8425, U.8.N.M. 



This species beai's a strong resemblance to Argi/rocifhs .^i(((pun'nf<ifi 

 E. A. Klages. The genus belongs next to (7iri/.so.^t(>/t/. 



EPANYCLES IMPERIALIS Walker. 



Habitat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



ANDROCHARTA MEONES Stoll. 



Habitat. — Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. 



ANDROCHARTA DIVERSIPENNIS Walker var. BRAZILIENSIS Butler. 



Habitat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



