174 On new Species of Pyralidae. 



dentate and with four minute dentate white spots beyond it ; 

 cilia wOiitc with a black line through them. Hind wing dark 

 brown with a cupreous tinge; a medial oblique wedge-shaped 

 white band from costa to above inner margin, its outer edge 

 excurvcd and enclosing a black bar beyond the cell ; cilia 

 ■white with a black line through them. 



Hab. W. Colombia, Jimincz, 2 c? type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(5 b) Desmia ufeodalis, sp. n. 

 Desmia ufeus, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 261 (nee Cram.). 



Antennae of male with the shaft excised at middle and 

 "with scale-tooth before it ; hind wing with slight furrow 

 above vein 6, the termen slightly excised below apex. 



^ . Reddish brown ; abdomen with white band on third 

 segment followed by white irroration and white segmental 

 lines, a streak on anal segment ; palpi at base and throat 

 white ; legs white and brown ; abdomen with the ventral 

 surface white with some red-brown on terminal segment. 

 Fore wing with bifid white antemedial points in and above 

 cell ; a medial white band from just below costa to inner 

 margin expanding somewhat in cell, then oblique and 

 follow^ed by an incurved white line from vein 2 to inner 

 margin ; a wedge-shaped postmcdial white patch from costa 

 to vein 3, its outer edge dentate, the area before it yellowisii 

 with slight whitish discoidal bar defined by blackish ; cilia 

 white with a black line near base. Hind wing with broad 

 oblique medial white band narrowing to inner margin and 

 with small black lunule on it beyond the cell, concave 

 towards base; cilia white with a black line through them. 



Hub. Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa [H. H. Smitli), 1 ^ type ; 

 Guatemala, San Isidro [Champion), 1 <$ , Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. E.rp. 28 mm. 



Subsp. 1. Rather darker brown ; fore wing without the 

 bifid antemedial point, the line beyond the medial baiui 

 replaced by a point below vein 2, the postmedial band not 

 wedge-shaped and expanding below without the yellowish 

 and discoidal striga before it ; hind wing with the lower 

 part of medial bund bent outwards as an oblique line to 

 tornus. 



Hab. Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 2 S. 



[To be continued.] 



