510 Mr. L. B. Prout on 



dusted and strigulatcd witli blackisli, tlie rosta of fore -wing 

 somewhat olivaceous ; the faintest possible suggestion of a 

 snbterminal band of a similar tone ; cell-spots and terminal 

 dots nearly as above. 



San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5800 feet, December 1907 

 {M. G. Palmer) ; one c? • 



Probably akin to muycHinda, Warr. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 354-. 

 AVarren^calls the whole of this group by the untenable name 

 of Cymatophora (Hiib. Tentamen, ined. ?, Packard; nee 

 Treitschke). The group contains canadaria, Guen , the type 

 of Melanolophia, Hulst. In the present species SC^- of 

 fore wing are stalked as usual, but SC^ anastomoses with C, 



Melanuluphia dicjna, sp. n. 



^ . 42-43 mm. — Face pale ochreous, with triangular dark 

 marks at sides and above; palpus pale oehreous at tip and 

 on the inner side, fuscous beneath and exteri( rly ; antennal 

 shaft fuscous, ringed with pale oehreous ; legs pale oehreous, 

 fore and middle pairs irregularly banded with fuscous, hind 

 sparingly spotted with fuscous; vertex, thorax^ and abdomen 

 concolorous with wings. Wings shaped as in the preceding 

 species, termen of fore wing perhaps slightly more elbowed 

 at R^ ; lavender-gre}', speckled with black and very sparsely 

 with tawny, the veins very pale yellowish ; lines very ill- 

 defined, indicated by an increase of the tawny and black 

 scales, slightly mixed with ferruginous, commencing from 

 dark marks on costa ; antemedia)i at one-fifth, outbent in 

 cell and on submedian fold ; median well before one-half, 

 obsolt scent, but sometimes with a distinct black spot on M 

 at the base of M^ ; postmcdian from costa at two-thirds, 

 forming an indentation between K^ and R^ and again above 

 and belov\ SM", these indentations being filled up with black 

 spots; minute black dots on the veins; subterminal at five- 

 sixths, indistinctly pale, preceded from costa to R^ and from 

 inner margin to submedian fold by some small black spots, 

 and preceded and followed on either side of R^ by strong 

 black marks, the distal the larger ; teimen with small black 

 dots between the veins ; fringe concolorous with wing. 

 Hind wing with tiie black dusting I'athcr strong basally ; 

 antemedian line from inner margin at two-fifths, mixed with 

 dark grey; postmcdian at before two-thirds, slightly lunulate- 

 dentate, bending towards tornus from submedian fold«^ 

 accompanied by some dark marks towards inner margin ; 

 subterminal indicated by a series of small black dots, followed 

 by pale scales ; its course parallel to termen until near inner 

 margin, where it bends towards tornus ; terminal dots as in 



