XKOLTTA. RIlYXrriOI.rTA. 3U7 



Genus NEOLITA, nov. 



Type, N. persiriafa. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, extending about twice the lenglli of 

 lu'ad and broadly iringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth with tuft 

 (if hair; eves large, round; antennre of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed and without crests ; build slender ; tibia; smoothly 

 scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 1 1 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; o obsolescent from middle of 

 dij^cocellulars ; 6, 7 on a long stalk; S anastomosing with the cell to near 

 middle. 



47:^5. Neolita perstriata, n. sji. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi tinged 

 with rufous and with sliglit brown streak at sides ; legs tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown, the costal edge brownish ; a subbasal black 

 point in cell ; traces of a curved antemedial series of black points : 

 a black point in middle of cell and another on discooellulars ; a 



b'ig. 129. — ycolita lyentriala, J. ]. 



diffused red-brown fascia from apex to lower angle of cell ; a post- 

 medial series of slight black points on the veins, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then obliquely curved to iinier margin ; a 

 terminal series of black ])oints. Hind wing yellowish white ; a 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein '2 ; the undersidfj 

 with the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hab. Bkazil, Eio Janeiro, 2 c? type. E,vp. 22 railllm. 



Genus RHYNCHOLITA, iu)v. 



Type, li. atripniicfa. 



Proboscis aboi-ted, minute; palpi porrecf, the 2nd joint extending about 

 throe times length of head and fringed with hair above and below, the 3rd 

 moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennas of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; 

 tibiiP. slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, 

 the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen oblicpiely curved and not 

 crcnvdate ; veins 3 and ,") from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 

 .5 obsolescent from middle of discocellidars ; (J, 7 shortly stalked; S anastu- 

 mosing with I lie cell to near middle. 



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