522 PROCEt^DINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxx. 



K/'/M(/).se of w'lngs. — 17 mm. 



Localitij. — St. Jean, ]Maroni Kiver, French Guiana; 2 females; 

 April, 1904. 



Diffei's from the type speeie.s in not having any metallic scales on 

 the under face of the wings; the sinus be\'ond cell in hind margin of 

 hindwings is very slight. 



7//y^-.— Cat. No. 9383, U.S.N.M. 



HYPOMETALLA? SCINTILLANS, new species. 



Forcinhuj. — Deep vehety l)ro\vn, with a purplish tinge in places, 

 and dusted except in outer half of wing, with tine bhiish scales: a thick 

 brown line near base, angled outward in cell, then inwardly oblique; 

 the cell itself paler, tinged with fulyous, the discocellular markt^d with 

 a tine brown vertical line, followed by a patch of silvery white, 

 beyond which there are traces of a brown median line; a thick brown 

 postmedian line joined to a large brown cloud reaching toward hind 

 margin, across which runs a submarginal row of fulyous spots; mar- 

 ginal line black-brown with fulvous spots at the vein ends; fringe 

 brown. 



JItndioing. — Dark purplish, sprinkled with blue scales, with a curved 

 submarginal dark band; a small white cell spot. 



Undei' side with a broad yellow- ochreous streak along costa to one- 

 half and along inner margin nearly to anal angle; a white blotch 

 beyond cell, followed by a ])laekish space, which toward costa becomes 

 brown and fulvous; patches of blue scales in places, continuous jdong 

 hind margin; hindwing purplish, with two dark curved bands and 

 bluish gray scales along hind margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish black. 



Ed'paufie of irhigs. — 16 nun. 



Locality. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French (niiana; July, 1904, 1 

 male. 



The species ma}' be left for the present in ITyjjoinetalla^ with which 

 it agrees in the main, having veins 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 all stalked together 

 and the hindwing deeply excavated beyond cell; it differs in that veins 

 3, 4 are stalked in both wings and that the anteniue of the male are 

 beset with pedicellate fascicles of cilia, appearing to be pectinated. 

 The inner margin of forewing and costa of hindwing ar(> sinuate; the 

 anal angle of forewing being produced as a lobe and the hindwing 

 shouldered at base and more broadly before apex. 



Type.— Cut. No. 9384, U.S.N.M." 



Genus LEPIDOSPORA, new genus. 



Foreii'imj. — Broad; costa i-onvex at ))ase and before apex; hind mar- 

 gin as long as iiuier margin, which is convex. 



Hindwing . — Small, rounded, the whole surface except extreme base 

 and inner margin covered with a thick bed of mealy scales. 



