ABACENA. — MICR0PH.SA. 



ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 with thf basal area and costal area to beyond middle grey with a 

 silvery blue gloss ; the medial area, black-brown extending into the 

 cell, where its upper edge is excised with a small white lunule in it. 

 and its outer extremity produced upwards as a point to subcostal 

 nervure, edged on inner side by the fine black antemedial line which 

 is slightly defined on inner side by white and very slightly an. 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, edged on outer side by the tine 

 black postmedial line which is slightly defined on outer side' by white, 

 excurved towards costa, incurved at lower angle of cell, then erect, 

 Borne slight white points beyond it on costa ; terminal area yellowish 

 brown with fuscous and whitish suffusion before the hardly traceable 

 Bubterminal line which is obliquely excurved below costa ; a black 

 terminal line ; cilia blackish. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; 

 the underside leaden grey, the costal area tinged with brown, a fine 

 black terminal line except towards tornus. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Potato R. (Kaye), 1 2 ', Brazil, Amazons 

 (Bates), type f tf in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. IS millim. 



Genus MICROPH.EA, nov. 



Type. .1/. nyctkhroa. 



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



vertex "of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute; Irons smooth; eyes 



large, round; antennas of male with bristles and cilia; thorax clothed almost 



■ely with scales and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; 



men without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen 



\ curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell : 6 from 



upper angle; !i from ]<> anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 10 anasto- 



sing with 11. Hind wing with wins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 



loped from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 B anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved beyond the 



cell and in submedian interspace nyctichr 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly excurved from 



cosla to vein 1, then incurved ;' 



5506. Microphaea nyctichroa, n. Bp. 

 $. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark purplish brown: 



Fig. 96. — MicrophcBa nyctichroa, $. ,. 



. and ventral surface of abdomen with some whitish mis 

 1 re wing purple with slight dark irroration, the postmedial 



