new Xeut rojyicdl i u'<uuriiidii\ 4.'55 



cither sliortly connected with (' (1 J, 1 ? ) <»r anustornosinf^ 

 (1 ? ) and !n;iy either l)e free from S(.''''* or connected there- 

 with ; in the hind win*; SC- It' may l)e either stalked (the 

 type ? ) or connate (one ? ) or even coincident tliroughout 

 (the only known <J). 



Microxydia rii ficomma , sp. n. 



cJ . 21-21 mm. — Face and \ertex white. Palpns and 

 antenna ochreons, occi|)nt ami collir hrij;ht ferrnf^inous ; 

 front of thorax hrij^ht ochreons; the rest of thorax and tlie 

 ah{h)men cream-coli)nr, l)a>^e <»f the hitler mark' d (htrsaliy 

 with pale ochreons, followed by a large spot of brijjht ferrn- 

 ginous, and this again by some mneh smaller ferrnginons 

 rairking. Fore wing cream-cohjur, finely irrorated with 

 ochreons, and with ji few se ittercd dark scales ; eosta, termen, 

 and fringe brij^ht deep ferrngincnis, a thick blackish line at 

 b.ise of fringe; the lines ochreons, r.ilher thick, bnt indis- 

 tiiiet, at abont one thinl aid two thirds; anti;median starting 

 from a ferrnginons nnirk from eosta, somewhat bent in cell ; 

 postmedian from a thick, comma-shaped, ferrnginons mark 

 at eosta, which contains a smaller blackish comma, an angle 

 on K' at which the ferrnginons mark abrnptly terminates, bnt 

 there is a smaller one on the line at inner margin ; cell-spot 

 elongate, pale ochreons. Hind wing witliont ferrnginons 

 eosta or costal markings, otherwise the postmedian line and 

 termen as in fore wing; antemedian wanting; cell-spot 

 weak. Underside similar, cell more clonded with ochreons, 

 cell spots distinct, dnll ferrnginons, lines on fore wing 

 obsolescent, that of hind wing spotted with ferrnginons ou 

 the veins. 



San Antonio, AV. Colombia, 5800 feet, December 19U7 

 (A/. G. Palmer) ; three c? <S • Also Candelaria Mountains, 

 Costa Rica [Viulcncood^, three ^ S i'l Coll. Brit. Mns. ; 

 Volean de Cliiri(ini, Panama, 2()0()-.'}0()() feet [Chauipion), 

 one c? i" CcdI. Hrit. Mns. The Central American specimens 

 rather smaller than the Colombian. 



Nearest to M. rufijimbriuta, Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 575. 



Microxydia striyosa adoxa, subsp. n. 



J. 21-23 mm. — Differs from the typical (Peruvian) race 

 of M. striyosa, Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 57G, in being paler, 

 tiie ochreons speckling mneh less, and in having the post- 

 median line of both wings further from the termen, that of 

 the fore wing therefore more approximated to the antenu-dian; 



