MICTOCHROA. 



5547. Mictochroa albirena. (Plate CLIX. fig. lit.j 

 Mictochroa albiren >, Druce, A. M. X. H. (S) iii. p. 460 1 1909). 



£. Head and thorax olive-yellow tinged with rufous; palpi and 

 antennae dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen grey thickly irrorated with brown and slightly 

 tinged with yellow. Fore wing brassy yellow suffused with dark 

 brown and slightly irrorated with prey-white, the inner area brassy 

 yellow tinged with rufous to medial line, the termen yellow tinged 

 with cupreous red except at apex; subbasal line double filled in 

 with yellowish, waved, from Costa to median nervure ; antemedial 

 line double 611ed in with yellowish, waved ; claviform and orbicular 

 yellow defined by black, conjoined, the former short, the latter 

 "round; reniform whitish tinged with yellow and defined by black, 

 elliptical with waved outline and rather constricted at middle, 

 black points in its upper and lower parts, a yellowish mark above 

 it on cost a and an indistinct curved dark line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double filled in with 

 yellowish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa and the postmedial area white tinged with yellow from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; sub terminal line whitish defined on inner 

 side by black, diffused towards costa and forming lunules between 

 veins -1 and 2, the line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; the 

 veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black; a slight 

 whitish line just before termen with white points at the extremities 

 of the veins; cilia cupreous red at base, whitish at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with dark brown; a terminal series of 

 minute white points; cilia reddish at base, whitish at tips; the 

 underside olive-brown irrorated with blue-white, an indistinct 

 brown di-eoidal spot and curved crenulate postmedial line. 



Hab. Colombia, Magdalen a, Sierra del Libane (//. II. Smith), 

 1 2 ■ Exp. 26 millim. Type t i" Coll. Druce. 



*5548. Mictochroa caterva. (Plate CLIX. 6g. 20.) 



Tarache catirva, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. L59 1904). 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white suffused with 

 rufous ; palpi blackish except at base; frons with blackish bar 

 above; fore femora blackish. Fore wing ochreous whitish slightly 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous; a slight blackish 

 BUbbasal mark in cell; antemedial line double, brown tilled in with 

 whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique especially 

 below submedian fold ; slight black points at middle of cell and 

 Bnbmedian told; reniform whitish defined by black, its centre 

 tinged with rufous ; outer half of medial area suffused with red- 

 brown, its inner edge angled outwards on median nervure: p 

 medial line double tilled in with whitish, bent out wards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein I ; postmedial 



