DR0BEIA. — PARANGIT] V. 335 



orbicular and reniform with very faini yellowish annuli, the former 

 inwardly oblique, the latter somewhat constricted at middli 

 small oblique dark mark tilled in with ochreous on oosta before the 

 postmedial line, which is brown and very oblique from cos 1 

 vein 6, then indistinct, pale, minutely waved, incurved below 

 vein 4, an oblique pale patch beyond it from costa ; Bubterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle; a terminal series of black points and striga above tornus 

 slightly defined on inner side by ochreous ;• cilia brown and 

 ochreous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the 

 terminal area darker; cilia chequered red-brown and ochreous; 

 the underside ochreous white slightly tinged with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and fine terminal line. 



Hal). Venezuela, Aroa, type t d in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



5514. Drobeta phaeobasis. n. sp. (Plate CI/VIII. fig. 30.) 



$. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and some 

 brown ; pectus and legs pale, the tarsi brown with pale ril 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused in parts with rufous aud irrorated with s 

 blackish scales except on disk ; the basal inner area fuse 

 expanding triangularly towards costa before the obliquely incu 

 black antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform pale brownish with 

 very indistinct pale annuli, the former small, brown, the latter 

 rather narrow and oblique : some blackish stria? from medial part 

 of costa; postmedial line indistinct, pale, oblique from costa to 

 V< iii 6, then minutely dentate and excurved to vein 4 near sub- 

 terminal line, then strongly incurved; subterminal line p 

 defined on inner side by somewhat dentate dark marks tow 

 costa and by blackish suffusion towards inner margin, w;: 

 angled outwards to near termen at veins 7, <>, 4. :'>. a w< 

 black mark beyond it at discal fold; a terminal series of black 

 stria^; cilia ochreous and fuscous brown intersected with whitish 

 at vein 2. Hind wing dark cupreous brown ; the cilia yell 

 base, chequered white and brown at tips; the undersi 

 white tinged with rufous, a brown discoidal lunule, minute!;, 

 curved postmedial line, and dark mark above tornus. 



Hub. \Y. Colombia, El Credo, 1 £ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus PARANGITIA. nov. 



Type, P. cervina. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint > 

 of head and moderately sealed, the 3rd short; fi 

 round; antennae of male with fasciculate cilia ; th 



scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the tired 



crest.-, tin- metathorax with spreading crest; I 

 liair . abdomen long with dorsal crest* 

 the apex rectangular, the termen oblique towards tornus. not 



