18 IMr. W. Schaus on 



Expanse 22 mm. 

 Hab. Esperanza. 



Fore wing without areole ; veins 8-10 stalked from end of 

 cell. 



Apustis, gen. no v. 



^fale. — Antenna? finely pubescent, ciliate. Palpi up- 

 curved; third joint nearly as long as second, smooth, acumi- 

 nate, with tufts of hairs at middle. Fore wings broad, the 

 apex acute, the outer margin incurved below apex, then 

 obliquely rounded; veins 3,4,5 apart from lower angle; 

 6 from near upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from upper angle ; 

 10 and 11 from cell. Hind wings : veins 3 and 4 from lower 

 angle, 5 from close to lower angle, 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus, Apustis sabulosa, Schs. 



Apustis sahulosa, sp. n. 



c$ . Body bone-colour irrorated with black and fuscous 

 brown, more thickly on collar and thorax; abdomen with 

 clear segmental lines. Fore wings similar, the irrorations 

 almost completely obscuring ground-colour, except on a 

 narrow basal space, and on lines which are of ground-colour; 

 antemedial lunular, outwardly edged by a fine fuscous line ; 

 orbicular very small, whitish; a fine fuscous medial line 

 across reniform, which is narrow, black, inwardly marked 

 with a white point; postmedial fine, wavy, dentate, widest 

 on costa ; subterminal forming irregular outcurves ; a terminal 

 interrupted fuscous line ; cilia mottled with brown at base, 

 crossed by a dark line and terminally spotted with fuscous- 

 Hind wings bone-colour; transverse shades and terminal 

 lines fuscous ; medial shade faintly marked, postmedial and 

 subterminal distinct ; outer margin thickly irrorated with 

 brown;, base to postmedial thinly irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wings below paler; subterminal line heavily shaded 

 inwardly with fuscous on costa. Hind wings below thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous brown; medial line more distinct, with 

 blacker shading on discocellular ; a streak from postmedial 

 inbent to cell ; ])ostmedial and subterminal followed by clear 

 bone-colour edging. 

 Expanse 27 mm. 

 Hah. Sixola. 



Metacinia, gen. nov. 

 Male, — Antennse with short cilia. Palpi flat, upcurved. 



