new Neotropical Geomctiidae. 525 



slif^litly l("ss stronj^ly curved and consequently a little further 

 Iroiu ternien iu middle. 



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

 (17. G. I'almer) ; one ? . 



Dihtin^Miishcd by the falcate fore win^?. Belonpfs to the 

 Nipteria section, the antenna being rather shortly but thickly 

 ciliated. 



Astijochia emphancs, sp. n. 



cJ . 25-27 mm. — Head (with face, pal pu-«, and antenna), 

 body, and lej^s brown-black ; tongue bright yellow. Wings 

 proximally white, semitranspareut, distally glossy brown- 

 black. Fore wing with costa to SC of same colour, and 

 with the distal border commencing at scarcely beyond two- 

 fifths (well before end of cellj,its proximal edge usually with 

 a slight projection inwards ouM, but running ncarl} straight 

 in the direction of tornus to submedian fold, thence sharply 

 bent back to inner margin at two-thirds ; a few dark scales in 

 basal i)art of cell ; an obliciue oval subapical white spot from 

 before R' to beyond R-, somewhat variable in size and shape. 

 Hind wing with costa very narrowly blackish; the dark 

 distal border from before two-thirds costa to about one-half 

 inner margin, continuing extremely narrowly along inner 

 margin to base ; its proximal edge vertical to SC'', then 

 strongly bent back towards tcrmen, rounded on R' at about 

 2 mm. from tcrmen, thence nearly parallel with termen. 

 Underside the same. 



La Oroya, Rio Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 feet, January 

 1906 (type) ; also a long series of cJ cJ from the same locality, 

 Sej)tembcr and November to January in Coll. L. B. Prout, 

 Coll. Brit. Mus., &e. 



I am told that this species has been con founded with 

 A. dulcns, Druce, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iii. p. 801,= 

 Tte(/rifa, Warr. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 187, from Bolivia, which is 

 a much darker and duller insect. 



Devarodes (?) sulffinesiraia, sp. n. 



cJ . 29 mm. — Face and checks white, vertex, palpus, and 

 antenna black, the latter with very short stout pectinations, 

 little longer than the width of shaft ; thorax varied black 

 and white above, white beneath ; abdomen dorsally black, 

 Avhitc-ringed, vcntrally white. Fore wing black, Mith a large 

 white inner-marginal Ijlotch reaching, on the margin, from 

 the fovea to about two-thirds, its upper (antt-rior) marj:in 

 rounded, reaching to the ccll-fold. Hind wing with 

 inner half white, outer black, the boundary of the two 



