I 



vti V ol)li(juc' tVoni cosca to vi-iii 7, then inwardly ubliiino, below tlie 

 white fascia stronj; and with faint lino hej'ond it ; the interspaces l| 

 of terniinal I'nva with slii^ht, hro.vn streaks : a fine brown terniin'il 

 line; cilia whitish with blaciv lines at middle and tips. Hind wing , 

 white, the terminal area sufl'used with reddi>h brown narrowing to p 

 tornus; cilia white with a slight brown line throngh them; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 an indistinct discoidal spot and somewhat dilJ'used curved ])Ost- 

 njedial line. 



Uiih. Bkazif,, Castro Tarana, type t in Coll. I). Jones. Exp. 

 1!4 millim. 



*4718. AmpMlita punctilinea. (Plate CXLTII. fig. 32.) 

 Parvapenna punctilinea, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Sue. 1908, p. 165. 



. Head and thorax ochreous yellow with a few brown scales ; 

 palpi fuscous at sides; tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen pale 

 ochreous. I'oro wing ochreous yellow sparsely irrorated with 

 fnscous ; subbasal line represented by black points below costa and 

 on median nervure ; a faint cnrved antemedial line with black 

 ])oiijts on costa and the veins, slightly incurved at vein 1 ; black 

 points at origin of vein 2 and lower angle of cell ; a postmcdial 

 series of black points on the veins, oblicjue from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a terminal scries of black stria? ; cilia ochreous 

 mixed with fuscous and with a fine dark line near base. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, the terminal half sufi'used with brownish 

 ochreous ; an indistinct dark discoidal spot ; cilia ochreous at base, 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 costa ochreous towards base, a dark discoidal spot, traces of a post- 

 medial line from costa to vein 3 and terminal series of stria^. 



Jlah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type + in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus ACYLITA, nov. j 



Type, A. sangitifusa. ! 



Proboscis nborteil, slight; palpi iiptiirnecl, slender, the 2nd juint, reaching j 

 about to niidclle of frons, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; < 

 iintennas of male laminate and minutely cilintefl ; thorax smoo'hly clothed willi \ 

 hair and scales and without crests ; tibi.T slightly fringed with hair, the spur-i i 

 verv long; build slender; ahdoineu without crests. Fore wing long and' 

 narrow, ilie apex produci-d and acute, the ternien evenly curved and not 

 erenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; o from above angle ; (i frotn 

 upper angle ; from ll) anastonmsing with 8 to form the areole; a fringe of 

 long hair from below base of costa on underside; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; (i, 7 Iroiu upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell to near 

 extremity. 



A. Fore wing mure or less strongly tinged with pink. 



(I. Fore wing with rufous fascia from base to apex defined by 



white streaks cava. 



b. Fore wing without rutbus fascia. 



a'. Fore wing suffused with pale pink and with slight dark 



shades from base to ape.x and on inner area chnicata. 



