330 nocididj;. 



paler ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, slightly excurved below 

 costa and incurved at vein 1 ; white points defined by a few black 

 scales in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial line 

 blackish, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved in subraedian 

 interspace ; a terminal series of black stria? with whitish points 

 between them ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing dark brown ; traces of a 

 pale postmedial line on inner area ; a slight pale spot on termen in 

 submedian fold ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia fuscous with a 

 fine pale line at base ; the underside brownish white irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a diffused brown 

 postmedial line. 



J fab. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby -Tyler), 2 $ type. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



5507. Microphaea griseata, n. sp. (Plate CLV. fig. 32.) 



J . Head and teguhe rufous ; thorax and abdomen greyish mixed 

 with purplish brown. Pore wing greyish thickly irrorated with 

 purplish brown ; antemedial line dark, angled inwards on subcostal 

 nervure and outwards on median nervure and above inner margin ; 

 a, discoidal spot Formed of blackish points ; postmedial line dark 

 brown defined on outer side by greyish, oblique to vein 6, excurved 

 to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; a fine red-brown terminal line 

 slightly defined on inner side by greyish ; conjoined small dark 

 brown spots on cilia at apex and on termen just below apex. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused and irrorated with purplish brown ; a slight 

 discoidal bar ; a slightly curved red-brown postmedial line defined 

 on outer side by greyish ; a red-brown terminal line defined on 

 inner side by grey ; the underside with more prominent discoidal 

 lunule, the postmedial line excurved at middle. 



J/ab. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 S type. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus TASEOPTERYX. 



Type. 

 Taseopteryx, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 63 sericea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden in hair; Irons smooth; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna? of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced 

 and acute, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or 

 from cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



5508. Taseopteryx sericea. 



Taseopteryx sericea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 64, pi. xi. f. 3. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with ochreous ; palpi 

 bmwnish at sides. Pore wing whitish tinged with ochreous and in 



