308 XOCTTTIDiE. 



4720. Rhyncholita atripimcta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous slightly tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing greyish ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by black points 

 on subcostal and median nervures ; a curved antemedial series of 

 black points ; orbicular and reniform small, black, the former 

 rather elongate elliptical, the latter round; a postmedial series of 



Fig. 130. — Rhyncholita atripuncta, <$ . \. 



black points, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white 

 with a faint flesh-coloured tinge; a small black discoidal spot, post- 

 medial series of striae on the veins and terminal series of striae ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged with brownish 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 centres and black annuli. 



Bab. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 tf , 2 $ type. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus AMOLITA. 



Type. 



Amolita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 158 (1574) fessa. 



Parvapenna, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 129 sen talis. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male typically bipectinate with moderate 

 branches to apex; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without 

 crests ; build slender ; tibias smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked : p obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex. 



A. Fore wing with brown fascia from base through the cell to 



apex. 



a. Fore wing white tinged with brown pir striata. 



b. Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous fessa. 



B. Fore wing with oblique brown band from apex to middle 



of inner margin. 



a. Fore wing slightly irrorated with black sentalis. 



b. Fore wing very strongly irrorated with black irrorata. 



