TARACODIA. — JIICTOcn KoA . ■ (55 



•5542. Paracodia albiceps. (Plate CLIX. tig. 15.) 

 Paracodia albiceps, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 465 (1909). 



d. Head white tinged with rufous; palpi rufous, the tips of 

 2nd and 3rd joints white; irons with lateral red-brown bars; 

 antenna? red-brown ; thorax cupreous red-brown with white Bpot 

 on metathorax ; abdomen rufous, pale at ba-e ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 glossy red-brown with leaden silvery bands on medial area and 

 ud postmedial line ; antemedial line whitish defined on each 

 Bide by rufous, waved; stigmata absent; postmedial line indi- 

 stinctly double, dark filled in with rufous, oblique from costa to 

 vein 5, then minutely waved, ending near tornus ; faint traces of a 

 minutely waved subterminal Hue; a terminal series of blackish 

 striae. Hind wing white faintly tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia white 

 with a blackish line through them: the underside with blackish 

 discoidal spot and indistinct, postmedial line exeurved at middle. 



Hah. Colombia, Magdalena, Valeparaiso (H. II. Smith), typet d 

 in (.'oil. Druce. E,vjy. 18 millim. 



Genus MICTOCHROA, nov. 



Type, M. zonella. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, rather slender, 

 and moderately sealed: frons with large corneous prominence with n 



- ; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male ciliated: bead and thorax 

 dot bed almost entirely with scales and without crests; build slender; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather 

 abort and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not 

 orenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 - .'!, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from :igle ; G, 7 from upper angle; 



8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing witb the postmedial line exeurved from below 

 costa to vein 4. 



,\ ing h nil the basal half not deep red. 

 at. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved to 

 lower edge of reniform. 



a 1 . Hind wing white tinged with ochreoua 



b-. Hind wing suffused with brown. 



Fore wing with tin- reniform tingled inwards 

 on median nervure. 

 a*. Hind wing witb postmedial line on upper- 

 side harmoni 



//'. Hind wing without postmedial line on upper- 

 side sonella. 



n\ Fore wing witb the reniform not angled in- 

 wards on median nervure. 

 o l . Fore wing rufous Buffused in part- with dark 



brown / 



6 4 . Fore wing brassy yellow suffused in pa 



with dark br iwn 



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