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NOC.TVIDJE. 



minutely waved ; some slight black marks on costa towards apex ; 

 a diffused blackish subterminal line : a terminal series of black 



Fig. 12. — Microblemma discipuncta, 5. 



striae. Hind wing fuscous brown mixed with some greyish ; the 

 underside greyish tinged with olive, a dark discoidal point, indistinct 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of striae. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 £ type. Exp. 

 14 millim. 



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Genus PROPOBLEMMA, nov. 



Type, P. stictopteris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head and fringed with long hair above towards extremity, 

 the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round: antennas of female 

 ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae 

 slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crefcts. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen very obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; H from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of ceil ; 5 nearly 

 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to uear middle. 



5024. Proroblemma stictopteris. 



Acidalia stictopteris, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 339. 



2 . Head and thorax pale purplish with a few black scales ; 

 abdomen browner. Fore wing pale purple irrorated with a few 

 raised black scales, the postmedial area rather redder except 



Fig. 13. — Proroblemma stictopteris, $. 



towards costa ; a black point in middle of cell ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, oblique from costa to vein 6, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, oblique and downcurved 

 from costa to vein 7 where it is angled, then minutely waved ; a 



