MICRISCADIA. old 
with whitish, waved, incurved in submedian interspace ; a black 
discoidal bar; postmedial line black defined on outer side by whitish, 
minutely deutate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved 
and bent outwards to inner margin, a dark patch beyond it on 
costal area ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner 
side by dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, a 
terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey-brown. 
Hub, Ecuapor, Paramba (Rosenberg), 1 2 type. Hwp.30 millim. 
Genus MICRISCADIA, nov. 
Type, M. metachryseis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending about the 
length of head and slenderly sealed, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at 
extremity; frons rounded: antenne of female minutely ciliated; thorax 
clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; fore tibie fringed with 
long hair, the mid tibix slightly fringed with hair, the hind tibiz smoothly 
scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 
evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just 
above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long 
narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 
4,5 from angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
6699. Micriscadia metachryseis, n. sp. 
Q. Head and thorax whitish mixed with ochreous brown and 
some blackish; tegulee with diffused blackish medial band; abdomen 
whitish tinged with ochreous, the medial segments suffused with 
blackish, lateral series of black points, the ventral surface ochreous 
white. Fore wing grey suffused with brick-red and irrorated with 
blackish ; subbasal line represented by double black points below 
costa and at vein 1; a blackish shade on antemedial area except 
towards costa; antemedial line blackish, waved; reniform very 
large, elliptical, defined by black and with whitish spot irrorated 
Fig. 148.—Micriscadia metachryseis, 9. 4. 
with black in centre ; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards 
below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 
incurved ; some short blackish streaks on terminal part of costa; 
subterminal line whitish irrorated with black and with small black 
spots on its outer edge except at discal fold, excurved from vein 7 
to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing golden yellow with broad 
terminal black band narrowing to a point at vein 1; cilia brown, 
whitish at tips and yellow towards tornus, 
Hab. Br, Guiana, Demerara (Lodway), 1 2, Rockstone (Kaye), 
1 @ type. vp. 26-28 millim. 
